April start of printing in the Amanas
Print is connected to things and not just to a computer screen. It is connected to the goat yard. It is connected to the fire set in the huge shop stove, hail on the windows and melting type metal. Its actually almost a question of prayer to send an assembled line because the line will transfer or will not and the great cam set halt or tumble and the cycle will be forced forward just by will. Mats and space bands suddenly on the floor, all sorts of things connected to print. Fingers look pale. This is some kind of grandmother story as capital GGGGG cascades into the assembler.
An aunt who could not read or write made meander lines on a piece of paper and asked my grandmother what she had written. My grandmother told her that her drawn lines were not writing.
"How can this be, my lines look like writing?" "Well, what did you mean?" asked my grandmother. "I don't know, I was in hope you could tell me." "No, writing doesn't work that way."
be square
Its a bit refreshing to discover weird
enclaves that consider connectivity uncool and screen reading crappy. They love in stead old weedy, wily, homemade print. For them it is Be There and Be Square; be square as in out-of-step with the digital age and square with the paper too. Same for
us.
Remember, all the digital advocates are old now.
unmirror
"The case also explores the line between free Web content created by fans and a commercially published book. Ms. Rowling has openly praised the Web site on which the Lexicon is based, giving it a “fan site award” in 2004 and commenting in interviews that she even relied on the site — which provides an annotated catalog of characters, spells, magic potions, locations and events in her books — while writing. It was only when RDR decided to transform the site into a book that she objected."
Many have remarked that the Potter series was distributed and read in traditional book format and that this indicated the continuing future of the book among young readers. The infringement suit now contends that while on-line popularity is a desirable accessory to the series a print reference work will too closely mimic the original print work.
What could be lurking here are exclusive attributes of the physical book, haptic possession of conceptual works, and the still relevant economy of physical consumer goods.
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