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

Alan Sondheim sondheim at gmail.com
Mon Feb 25 17:29:28 CET 2019


I have no idea if anything I've done anywhere is ranked but I usually close
my eyes and hide in the meerkat tunnel. :-)

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:03 AM Helen Varley Jamieson <
helen at creative-catalyst.com> wrote:

> 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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