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Was This the First CC Community-Edited Novel?

Posted by kdawson on from the establishing-precedence dept.

Odinson writes "In late 2005 I released a draft of a science fiction novel under the by-nc-nd CC license. I started accepting edits in the hope of polishing a manuscript for submission to a publisher. A publisher never materialized, but after thousands of comments the draft started getting really solid. So a couple of months ago I decided to buy an ISBN and sell hard copies from Lulu. While doing research for a press release, I was unable to uncover the first community-edited, CC-licensed work of fiction. I strongly suspect that my novel is the first. Can anybody point to a prior example? How about under other licenses? If someone has traveled this road before, I'd like to ask them how it went. I would also like to vet this question here before staking a claim to be the first."

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  1. Community edited by vigmeister · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure that's such a good idea?

    Pg. 147

    "As Ja Rool climbed out of the skies CLAIRE IS T3H AWESOME of Planet 142, in the yellow smoke trails he caught the glint BUCH SUCKS of an enemy spacecraft. Maneuvering his nimble XPJ-134, JAMES LOVE CINDY."

    Cheers!
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  2. Re:So I tried to download the book... by SeaFox · · Score: 5, Funny

    and its going at a few bytes per second... I think we slashdotted his poor server.

    No, it's still in editing. Please stand by while we continue to write it.