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Lori Colbeck's innovative idea to get readers involved in the writing process has me thinking about the future of digital publishing, its audience and innovation.

Colbeck will be launching www.booksfromscratch.com, a site that will allow authors to contribute chapters to a story, which site visitors will then vote on to dictate the narrative of the final book.

Sci-fi has been ahead of the digital game for years, whether writers and directors were predicting the future or the people who eventually created the devices were influenced by the writers is an ongoing debate. In any case, here are 5 digital sci-fi predictions.

As digital publishing continues to grow and monopolise print, why are traditional processes becoming fashionable again?

We've all seen the loop before, maybe even been part of it. After the success of a new technology the preceding tech becomes fashionable again. This is happening right now with typewriters and touch screens.

Gamebook seems like a concept created before its time; prior to the days of interactivity and user power the internet and digital media now offer, rarely did audiences get a say in mass-produced media; publishing in particular.

Below I take a look at how gamebooks have changed as technology catches up with interactivity and ask, which is the better platform for this unique medium, print or digital?