That is just cool.

This reminded me of Orwell's "Versificator" in 1984. He writes, "The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator. But the woman sang so tunefully as to turn the dreadful rubbish into an almost pleasant sound."

Orwell doesn't seem to hold out much hope for machine generated literature, but I wonder how far off that is from something like Camel Tale that randomly remixes 30 years of Metallica lyrics: http://thefwordsrt.appspot.com/cameltail.html

And yet, the randomness of Camel Tale is surprisingly compelling.

Oh man, I could spend hours with this toy from Google, mashing up sociology and literature. I had forgotten about this! https://books.google.com/ngrams

I wonder if this includes something like the opera "Death and the Powers" (http://opera.media.mit.edu/projects/deathandthepowers/).

I first read the book of the opera in Poetry Magazine where the experience was anything but e-lit. Still, the performance includes robot actors, which seems like e-performance or e-theater. Is it worth making a distinction between e-lit and e-theater? Is there such a thing as e-theater?

As someone who works in publishing, I'd be curious to hear more details about the market for e-lit.