September 1, 2011 marks the beginning of a new era in self-publishing. Various teams of writers have now published the world’s first crowd-sourced murder mystery novel on Libboo.com. The novel “Paradox: The curious life and mysterious death of Mr Joseph Wheeler” represents the contributions and interactions of thousands of people during a four-month period.
The project, called ‘The Great Libboo Experiment’ was started earlier this year. Libboo teamed up with best-selling author Richard Wiseman – who provided the first chapter of this murder-mystery. Hundreds of writers created their own storyline, making a ‘writing-tree’ in which thousands of people read and interacted with throughout the months of March – June.
One June 1st, the experiment was closed to further contributions and Team Libboo used a patented technology called KEBL – Knowledge Engine Base on Libboo. The algorithm analyzed and predicted the best possible path for a story based on how people interacted, read and wrote along the ‘writing-tree’.
On June, the KEBL’s version of PARADOX was made available to the Libboo community in order to carry out Phase II of the Experiment. During the summer, various teams of writers worked on- and edited their version of PARADOX. On the 1st of September, the teams of writers published their version of this murder mystery novel.
The book with the highest total score (a combination of social media presence, reads, downloads, influence) by the end of this month will be crowned the winner!
In October 2011 – we will announce the winning version. All proceeds from this project will benefit the National Literacy Trust, a UK based non-profit promoting literacy around the globe.
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Further inquiries should be sent to:
Fernando Albertorio, Ph.D.
fernando@libboo.com