Hi Micha,
My experience is a bit frustrating, largely because I'm going through companies; I don't have any idea if any of the books have been downloaded or bought. Most of the companies I think list them, do a minimum of advertising, and the rest is up to you. It's a problem - you can't browse them at a bookstore for example. They do have ISBN numbers and I think Amazon lists them. If I could go for an academic or hard-copy publisher, I would (and Salt I think will bring out another collection next year), just because the tangibility and publisher presence is really there. I love the idea of POD of course - it saves trees, means the books are always avail- able, sometimes they're free for download, etc. - but I just wish I knew more about the stats; I don't even know if I should be paid anything per copy! This may well be my own fault; I'm a bit remiss here, and I'm glad these things are in print - I just don't quite feel like an 'author' in the sense of having accomplished anything, having a readership, maybe even making a hundred usd or so now and then... - Alan, and thanks On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, dj lotu5 wrote: > thanks for sharing this alan, > > as much as there is talk about the changing nature of knowledge and > scholarship in the digital age, it sure does seem like most academics > are wedded to traditional publishing, given its credential adding status. > > do these books sell well? i've considered publishing as a way to get > more people to read my work, and of course to build my cv as an emerging > academic myself... > > do they all have isbn's? > > how has your self publishing experience been in general? > > > micha > > > Alan Sondheim wrote: >> >> >> My publish-on-demand works >> >> >> My publish-on-demand books from Blue Lion, Fort/Da, Blazevox, and Alt-X - >> Please consider ordering. The Blue Lion is just now coming out (over 500 >> pages), and The Accidental Artist appeared a few months ago. These books >> are the soul of my work (such as it is); I'm close to them and I've been >> lucky that the publishers gave me free reign over content. >> >> >> Azure, Nature, Digital: Blue Lion >> >> Description - two sections: The first, with Sandy Baldwin, is on the >> phenomenology of the analog/digital, and the second is culled from the >> entire Internet Text, presenting literary/codework texts with peripheral >> philosophical content. I'm really happy that Blue Lion gave me the >> opportunity to do this, since it shows how my work hangs together and >> actually 'goes somewhere,' says something. Thanks to Peter Ganick and >> Jukka-Pekka Kervinen. >> >> http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/azure-nature-digital/7428344 >> http://stores.lulu.com/bluelionbooks (download and print) >> >> >> The Accidental Artist: Fort/Da >> >> http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-accidental-artist/4965130 >> http://stores.lulu.com/publicdomaininc >> >> This is a short and intense collection of writings around Second Life and >> the phenomenology of the virtual - I really love these texts, thanks to >> Robert Cheatham who went over them with me. >> >> >> Vel: Blazevox >> >> http://www.blazevox.org/bk-as.htm >> http://www.blazevox.org/catalog.htm >> >> These texts were produced in relation to West Virginia University's >> Virtual Environments Laboratory, and deal with motion capture, virtual >> modeling, and scanning. But the texts are codework themselves, and >> virtuality is embedded within them. Thanks to Geoffrey Gatza for this >> opportunity. >> >> .echo: Alt-X >> >> http://www.altx.com/ebooks/echo.html >> (goes both to download and Print On Demand) >> >> This was the first of the POD books, thanks to Ron Sukenick and Mark >> Amerika. The texts include the entire Nikuko Parable series (Nikuko and >> others appear throughout the other works as well) and other avatar- >> oriented texts. >> >> Please consider purchasing any of the above. Please note that all of these >> publishers have amazing publications (including a great book by Sandy >> Baldwin from Blazevox) and need your support in general. And thanks of >> course. >> >> (Finally, please note I have a paperback, The Wayward, available from >> Salt, which is beautifully typeset and covers a great deal of ground.) >> >> This is the end of the self-promotion material - apologies if I've >> offended anyone. >> >> - Alan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > > -- > blog: http://transreal.org > > gpg key: 1024D/7E8B7A2B > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > | current internet text file: http://www.alansondheim.org/qf.txt | Alan Sondheim Mail archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ | Webpage (directory) at http://www.alansondheim.org | [email protected], [email protected], tel US 718-813-3285 ! http://www.facebook.com/alan.sondheim _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
