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 < [email protected]> 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. > > > > ????? _______________________________________________ > ????? 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] > http://www.creative-catalyst.com > http://www.upstage.org.nz > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- *=====================================================* *directory http://www.alansondheim.org <http://www.alansondheim.org> tel 718-813-3285**email sondheim ut panix.com <http://panix.com>, sondheim ut gmail.com <http://gmail.com>* *=====================================================*
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