[NetBehaviour] Two Free Books by Alan Sondheim, Originally Published by Salt!

Helen Varley Jamieson helen at creative-catalyst.com
Mon Feb 25 17:00:48 CET 2019


i saw that on lulu, books have a sales rank. the CyPosium book is ranked
at 64947 ... :D

On 25.02.19 13:19, Alan Sondheim wrote:
>
>
> and the pdf is free. I also have a couple of things on Lulu, or at
> least they were on Lulu, one of then is
> Azure, Nature, Digital by Alan Sondheim, Blue Lion Books, 2009 .
> It's large, it should still be available, I think it might have been
> expensive, and I know no one who looked at it.
>
> The first section is The Analog and the Digital (Alan Sondheim with
> Sandy Baldwin); the second is ZZ.
>
> The subtitle to the whole is Phenomenologies of the Analogic and
> Digital, Deep Language, Nature
>
> I'd love to know if anyone might order this on Lulu, how much it
> costs, whether they're satisfied, etc. There was little or no
> advertising. The pages are unnumbered but appear to be around 500...
>
> Do let me know and thanks!, Alan
>
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2019, Helen Varley Jamieson wrote:
>
>>
>> i don't think lulu (or print-on-demand in general) is about making
>> money -
>> at least, not for the author!! :D but it does mean that people who
>> like to
>> read words on paper have the option to get a print copy (of course
>> they can
>> also print out a pdf ... ).
>>
>> On 22.02.19 16:49, Alan Sondheim wrote:
>>
>>
>>       I'd rather distribute them for free; when I've had things on
>>       Lulu, I never made any money, and this way, the work can move
>>       around freely from that kind of model.
>>
>>       Thanks!, Alan
>>
>>       On Fri, 22 Feb 2019, Helen Varley Jamieson wrote:
>>
>>
>>             that is crap that you weren't informed about it, but
>>             good that you have the
>>             pdfs. have you thought about putting them onto a
>>             print-on-demand site like
>>             Lulu?
>>
>>             On 21.02.19 23:26, Alan Sondheim wrote:
>>
>>
>>             ????? Two Free Books by Alan Sondheim, Originally
>> Published by
>>             Salt!
>>
>>             ????? http://www.alansondheim.org/Saltfront.jpg
>>             ????? http://www.alansondheim.org/Saltback.jpg
>>
>>             ????? http://www.alansondheim.org/deeplanguage.pdf
>>             ????? Deep Language, Salt Publishing, Cambridge, 2010
>>
>>             ????? http://www.alansondheim.org/TheWayward.pdf
>>             ????? The Wayward, Salt Publishing, Cambridge, 2004
>>
>>             ????? Both of these books sold poorly and were
>> unceremoniously
>>             dropped
>>             ????? by Salt. I wasn't informed, and had no chance to buy
>>             additional
>>             ????? copies myself - I only found out when I tried to order
>>             some a
>>             ????? year or so ago. I'm also no longer included on the
>>             authors list.
>>             ????? Apparently a very large number of other authors were
>>             dropped as
>>             ????? well. I do believe we should have been informed that
>>             this was
>>             ????? going to happen. In any case, here are two free books
>>             for you!
>>
>>             ????? The Wayward is based on MOOs, Talkers, MUDs, and other
>>             forms of
>>             ????? digital texting; there are a number of "playlets" and
>>             other
>>             ????? kinds of dialogs in it. The blurbs are by Maria Damon
>>             and
>>             ????? Stephanie Strickland. (They're not included in the
>> pdf.)
>>
>>             ????? Deep Language is wilder, occupying positions between
>>             codework
>>             ????? and text, classical language, and semiotic
>> splatter. The
>>             two
>>             ????? books resonate with each other. The blurbs are by
>> Maria
>>             Damon
>>             ????? and John Cayley. (Again, they're not included in the
>>             pdf.)
>>
>>             ????? The books were beautifully printed; they were just
>> taken
>>             down.
>>             ????? Think of them as orphans, with beautiful deep and
>>             wayward
>>             ????? language, and enjoy.
>>
>>
>>
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> web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 347-383-8552
> current text http://www.alansondheim.org/vz.txt
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