[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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> helen varley jamieson
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> current text http://www.alansondheim.org/vz.txt
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