Stories written around the medium of the Internet, rather than the medium of the codex. Everyone says they love books and they’ll never want to read stuff on a screen instead of pages. But this obviously isn’t true since you’re reading this on a screen. We all spend huge amounts of our days reading stuff on screen. And the Internet has created new kinds of reading and writing. For example, Fluther, and other message boards, could not exist as “books.” Wikipedia, with its hyperlinks and infinite space, could not exist as a physical encyclopedia. These are entirely new kinds of writing—new kinds of “literature,” if you want to define it broadly, adapted around the new medium of the Internet. So far, the books you can buy on e-readers like the Kindle and the iPad are still just books in the form of codexes. Instead of turning the page of a codex, you click a button to turn a “virtual page.” (Or worse, they’re pdfs, or long scrolls of badly formatted HTML.) But there’s no reason that stories have to imitate the technology of the codex to be told on the Internet. And there’s actually a lot of new stuff you can do with a narrative using hyperlinks and show/hide tags and whatnot.