I’ve been waiting for the Tor.com sci-fi site to launch for awhile now — publisher Macmillan/Tor Books did a nice job of drumming up interest by releasing a series of e-books in advance of their launch. And the site looks pretty nifty so far (it just launched, so I haven’t had much time to delve too deeply into it.)
But I just found out about Random House’s answer, Suvudu, thanks to a post on Mediabistro’s Gallycat blog.
Tor.com seems to have the early head-start, with stronger community features to go along with the louder buzz. But I’ll withhold judgment for awhile, until I get a chance to tool through both sites. One thing’s for sure — no matter which blog “wins,” sci-fi fans are coming out ahead.
Got an opinion? Share it in the comments section.
nice to have both, but tor.com seems less press releasey than suvudi (and has a much better name, fwiw)
I think that both sites are pretty cool. However, I feel that Tor.com is the better of the two.
As mentioned by D-town the Suvudu site is a little more “splashey,” plus it had a few problems rendering in Firefox 3 - of course maybe ad-block had something to do with that.
However, what I really liked about Tor.com was: 1) it was easier to find what I was looking for, and 2) the stories section offered multiple versions - HTML, PDF and mp3 among others. A very nice touch that!