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. >> >> >> >> ????? _______________________________________________ >> ????? NetBehaviour mailing list >> ????? [email protected] >> ????? >> https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> -- >> >> helen varley jamieson >> >> [email protected] >> http://www.creative-catalyst.com >> http://www.upstage.org.nz >> >> >> >> >> web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 347-383-8552 >> current text http://www.alansondheim.org/vy.txt >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> -- >> >> helen varley jamieson >> >> [email protected] >> http://www.creative-catalyst.com >> http://www.upstage.org.nz >> >> >> > > web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 347-383-8552 > current text http://www.alansondheim.org/vz.txt > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- helen varley jamieson [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.upstage.org.nz
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