from screen to print
The digital revolution will be remembered for the reinvention of the paper book.
Lightning Source expansion.
print-on-impulse
FotB is going full circle and producing print books from screen commentary. Like Keith Smith and
Walt Crawford, FotB will convey the digital stream to the publish-on-demand industry and await new books in the mail.
The first FotB books will compile the oldest and most vanity flavored commentaries. The relationship between print and screen reading was anguished between 2000 and 2004. The role of the hand held reading device, either electronic or paper based, was debated and contested without pause for mutual redefinitions and the commentaries convey some of the confusions which are isolated to that short period. Both before and after the period, the role of the book is much more apparent.
"Lulu.com transforms every kind of creativity into hard copy. It´s where anyone can turn words, pictures, photographs, music and movies into beautiful books, CDs and DVDs. For entertainment, education and information by the people, for the people – start browsing!" Books by Mode is the local shop working with FotB.
Now I am beginning to realize what the tag line "preservation and persistence of the changing book" means.
attentive reading
"Coming as it does at a time when newspaper book reviews are endangered, many writers, publishers and critics worry that the spread of literary blogs will be seen as compensation for more traditional coverage. “We have a lot of opinions in our world,” said John Freeman, president of the National Book Critics Circle. “What we need is more mediation and reflection, which is why newspapers and literary journals are so important.” New York Times
Emerging Writers
curved space
"The
SL Book Art Museum will encourage the creation of new artistic content, and give a strong impulse to in-world book technology. The codex shape the object has from late antiquity survives in the Second World, and still suits the avatar’s need to leaf through pixel pages: but the history of the RL object is longer, and it will not be left behind. In this way, the SL Museum will keep tangible the memory of the book’s source as artifact—that particular mix of creativity, taste, knowledge, practical skills and patient effort called by the Greeks ????? (techne), “art/craft”. This human attitude is, in my opinion, the true link between the book you can touch and the one you can click."
—Petronilla Paperdoll
The location of the fulcrum that
Richard Minsky is using to leverage the future of the book from two differing universes must be in curved space. But it is also grounded in a new interplay of paper and screen reading. The summer 2007 SLArt magazine will appear in paper to surprised avatars of Second Life.
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