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A new Philadelphia Inquirer column launched in the last month explores how literature is changing in the digital medium, calling the phenomenon DigitaLit.

From bloggers who review audio files of poetry readings as if they were pop singles to writers of interactive fiction who invite readers to participate - making the work part innovative literature, part game - literature is having no trouble adjusting.

Novelists are also emailing their stories out one chapter at a time, enhancing them with images and links, bypassing publishers in the process. For example L. Lee Lowe, an American-born writer living in Germany, has been publishing her novel Mortal Ghost in weekly installments on her blog. After completion, it will be available for free download on PDF.

It's the interaction with her readers that keeps Lowe plugging away at her book. Lowe has even commissioned Bill Uden, a U.K. peforming arts student, to record her readings so that they're available for podcast download.