Ciudad Seva

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Ciudad Seva is a web site founded in December 12, 1995 by puertorican author Luis López Nieves

1 The beginnings
2 Development and growth
- 2.1 Ciudad Seva Digital Library
3 Other Uses
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] The beginnings

The site originally started out of curiosity as a way for López-Nieves to keep in touch with his family and friends by a new method (back then): the World Wide Web. With little hesitaition he picked the title of his first book: Seva as the web page title. By doing this he became (unkowingly) the first Spanish-speaking writer with his own webpage.

[edit] Development and growth

The site quickly started growing. At first it was just a place for the author to keep in touch with his friends and students, also a place where people from around the world could get to know his work, but it quickly grew from a mere form of entreteinment to one of the most important literary sites in the world. The different sections have grown from badly formatted stubs to sections containing almost all the information there is to publicly know about the author and his writings.

[edit] Ciudad Seva Digital Library

Founded in April, 2001 the Ciudad Seva Digital Library has probably become the site main attraction. Started as a way for the author to post stories that would be useful to his students and his courses, it now houses more than 3000 classic Short story's and is the largest digital compilation of classic short stories of the web today and one of the largest digital libraries in the world.

[edit] Other Uses

Besides being one of the largest digital libraries in the world, the site houses numerous literay forums and subscritions where visitors can (among other things) receive a weekly classic short story via email and also an online forum where writings can be peer-reviewed and ideas can be exachend about improving each others work.