[NetBehaviour] Book release: Real Virtuality. About the Destruction and Multiplication of World

[Alan Sondheim]

I personally love paper books, have a lot including technical ones from 
O'Reilly etc. But these outrageous prices are ridiculous and I totally 
agree with you re: pdf - I als have a pdf library that's fairly large, and 
I assume most of us do -

On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Radovan Misovic wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just don't get this. Someone invests a huge amount of time and effort
> to produce this book stuff it with useful information and all of this
> only to tie it all to a paper-based object???
> How about a PDF (of a whole book, not an just an excerpt) or even a
> DRM-free e-book format for an affordable price?
>
> Wouldn't it in the end help spreading and utilising the information you
> wanted to communicate in the first place?
>
> Please consider this when publishing.
>
> Best regards,
> rad0van.
>
> --
> Most wheels need reinventing.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Alan Sondheim" <sondheim at panix.com>
>> To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" <netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, 9 July, 2014 9:20:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Book release: Real Virtuality. About the Destruction and Multiplication of World
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately here it's prohibitively expensive - I think 54 usd -
>>
>> - Alan
>>
>> On Wed, 9 Jul 2014, marc garrett wrote:
>>
>>> Book release: Real Virtuality. About the Destruction and Multiplication of
>>> World
>>>
>>> Ulrich Gehmann and Martin Reiche (eds): Real Virtuality: About the
>>> Destruction and Multiplication of World (with a Preface by Gerd Stern),
>>> Transcript Bielefeld, Germany sold internationally by Columbia University
>>> Press, New York.
>>>
>>> Real Virtuality explores the boundaries of how we understand space, reality
>>> and virtual worlds.
>>>
>>> Increasingly, the virtual became reality by a hybridization of the world as
>>> we knew it: the process that went on in recent years is one of a
>>> technically
>>> assisted hybridization of both space and self, the ?old? world is becoming
>>> virtualized and functionalized to a degree never experienced before. For
>>> the
>>> first time in human history, we have reached a threshold where we have not
>>> only to re-assert but to redefine ourselves, as regards our fundamental
>>> terms
>>> of understanding what world means for us, our base of existence and now an
>>> assemblage of mixed realities; and connected, what being human means.
>>>
>>> Real Virtuality is an anthology with contributions by Martin Rieser,
>>> Randolph
>>> Langenbach, Gerd Stern amongst many other professionals from various
>>> sciences, humanities and the arts.
>>> The book is available through Columbia University Press, Transcript Verlag
>>> and Amazon as paperback and the PDF version is on its way. Excerpts are
>>> available from the publisher's website.
>>>
>>> http://www.cup.columbia.edu/book/978-3-8376-2608-7/real-virtuality
>>> http://www.transcript-verlag.de/en/978-3-8376-2608-7/real-virtuality
>>> http://www.amazon.com/Real-Virtuality-Destruction-Multiplication-Preface/dp/3837626083
>>> http://www.amazon.de/Real-Virtuality-Destruction-Multiplication-Preface/dp/3837626083
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