Authors' websites

In The Times, Tom Cox looks at how book writers such Jasper Fforde as are using websites to interact with their readers.

The web pages are a kind of after-sales service for readers who only see a new Fforde book ever year,” Fforde says. “I also see it as an extension of the books — allowing readers to dive back into that world for a little longer.” He says the website is an important part of “a reader-writer contract that I hope will induce people to keep reading me year after year”.