For all the speculation about the digitization process narrative, the latest in electronic reading will join a very traditional

During the last week or two at the front of Amazon.co.uk announces the launch of the new Kindle e-reader. Apparently, the "backup cloudless" "smaller, lighter, faster, more accessible, but the Kindle" to "turn the page quickly," a screen, "reads like real paper" and. But as noted Bill Ray in the register, the new slim body lacks a vital element:. The keyboard

seems that instead of doing "things that the book could do" to become "a new way to interact with the text content ... [Which] has invited the participation of consumers "instead of the community to read the writing process, people have been using the Kindle, MTC", read books, many books. "

back in the day, the Internet has promised "a world of success and romance ... for the price of so-called" hypertext markup and seemed about to launch a new wave fictitious experiences as Geoff Ryman 253. Fifteen years later, the linear narrative seems more entrenched than ever. For Andrew Gallix the problem began in 1997 when Mark Amerika has opened a gap between the pioneers of digital and multimedia literary history Waterways , Grammatron, while Sam Jordison goes beyond the problem with the complicated character to the reader as the protagonist interactivity necessarily contradict the story. Few people disagree with Kate Pullinger, when he says that "there a gap between what is possible and what they do, "or James Campbell when he complains about the iPhone version of On the Road is going" ashore by the imagination of the facts and entertainment technology. "

So maybe the future of the social narrative. The General Society of Authors was to create stories through Twitter, to protest against the planned reduction in the BBC in the stories, by writers Joanne Harris, Sarah Waters and Ian Rankin. The stories were fun, but perhaps more effective as a campaign tool than art, but perhaps the future of fiction is in the collaborative projects that allow us to bring the fiction ourselves. Or maybe, as suggested by Paul Lafarge, hypertext are hard. But if he is right when he says that not only ebooks "way of life now," but also "the authors offer technical possibilities, the human being, we will be unable to resist," then what's the point? Can be the tools are all around us, it's only a matter of pushing in the direction of interactivity, or in the direction of fiction. Or maybe the future of fiction in the past - as seems think Bezos - the interaction is required to use your imagination and turn the page