There are surprisingly few serious "web books"! I don't even mean "fancy new media books"—just: written primarily for and read primarily on the web.
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* Butterick's Practical Typography: https://practicaltypography.com
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Definitely. I’m very open in what I’d consider in this bucket! Just: a long-form, primarily textual mass medium you engage with via a web browser. Any good examples for you in that broader sphere?
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Beyond the diary format? (Pepys, Frank, Weir etc) Not that I can think of, to be honest. Maybe the xkcd What If? series, but that's a string of articles akin to a diary. Maybe the limitations of the display (and inbuilt distractions) limit our tolerance to snippets?
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Hell, until a hundred years ago the big UK authors like Dickens and Walter Scott tended to be serialised by the chapter before the books came out for the serious fans. Maybe the cheap paperback was temporary, popular aberation in the gap between mass production and mass media?
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E.g. how my weekly medium posts/"chapters" during Q1'19 evolved into an "ebook" Q1'20:http://yokosopress.se
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