Rothgar (aka dev Greg Spence) has put up a post explaining how the whole thing works - as well as sharing the first page of his masterpiece, Death of a Dragon. Essentially the process is simple: nip to your local crafter and buy a blank book. Once you start writing, that book becomes tied to you the author. According to Rothgar, there's no limit to pages but there is to words. For example, this screenshot shows 16% of the book has been used up which probably means around four pages of text.
Those concerned about losing their previous works in progress will be pleased to know there is an auto-save function built in. But once you've written your masterpiece, what do you do with it? Well you can easily copy the book to another blank tome, then you can give out copies to your friends or even sell them via a broker so the entirety of Norrath can read your tales.
As MMO innovations go, we're quite excited by this. It's a small feature which promises to encourage EQII players' creativity and we hope something similar should be included in other MMOs.
