Hi, I just don't get this. Someone invests a huge amount of time and effort to produce this book stuff it with useful information and all of this only to tie it all to a paper-based object??? How about a PDF (of a whole book, not an just an excerpt) or even a DRM-free e-book format for an affordable price?
Wouldn't it in the end help spreading and utilising the information you wanted to communicate in the first place? Please consider this when publishing. Best regards, rad0van. -- Most wheels need reinventing. ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alan Sondheim" <[email protected]> > To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, 9 July, 2014 9:20:35 PM > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Book release: Real Virtuality. About the > Destruction and Multiplication of World > > > Unfortunately here it's prohibitively expensive - I think 54 usd - > > - Alan > > On Wed, 9 Jul 2014, marc garrett wrote: > > > Book release: Real Virtuality. About the Destruction and Multiplication of > > World > > > > Ulrich Gehmann and Martin Reiche (eds): Real Virtuality: About the > > Destruction and Multiplication of World (with a Preface by Gerd Stern), > > Transcript Bielefeld, Germany sold internationally by Columbia University > > Press, New York. > > > > Real Virtuality explores the boundaries of how we understand space, reality > > and virtual worlds. > > > > Increasingly, the virtual became reality by a hybridization of the world as > > we knew it: the process that went on in recent years is one of a > > technically > > assisted hybridization of both space and self, the ?old? world is becoming > > virtualized and functionalized to a degree never experienced before. For > > the > > first time in human history, we have reached a threshold where we have not > > only to re-assert but to redefine ourselves, as regards our fundamental > > terms > > of understanding what world means for us, our base of existence and now an > > assemblage of mixed realities; and connected, what being human means. > > > > Real Virtuality is an anthology with contributions by Martin Rieser, > > Randolph > > Langenbach, Gerd Stern amongst many other professionals from various > > sciences, humanities and the arts. > > The book is available through Columbia University Press, Transcript Verlag > > and Amazon as paperback and the PDF version is on its way. Excerpts are > > available from the publisher's website. > > > > http://www.cup.columbia.edu/book/978-3-8376-2608-7/real-virtuality > > http://www.transcript-verlag.de/en/978-3-8376-2608-7/real-virtuality > > http://www.amazon.com/Real-Virtuality-Destruction-Multiplication-Preface/dp/3837626083 > > http://www.amazon.de/Real-Virtuality-Destruction-Multiplication-Preface/dp/3837626083 > > _______________________________________________ > > NetBehaviour mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > > > == > email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ > web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 718-813-3285 > music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ > current text http://www.alansondheim.org/sp.txt > == > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
