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Summary Tsunami has resulted in a charity e-book.
A twitter user’s desire to help Japan recover from the devastating March earthquake and tsunami has resulted in a charity e-book. The e-book is based on material gathered from around the world.The e-book 2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake was available for download which raised $25,000 for the Japan Red Cross in its first two weeks. The twitter user wants to keep his name secret in order to focus more on the charity work. He sent out a tweet asking people for their impressions, stories, pictures or art -- anything at all inspired by the quake, from Japan or overseas. Whatever he got within 48 hours would form the basis for a book. Within a day, 70 entries had piled up and the project had gained momentum while keeping its sense of urgency.Now a print version is in the works, along with planned translations into Japanese, Dutch, and German as well as a bilingual Japanese-English version.
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