I personally love paper books, have a lot including technical ones from
O'Reilly etc. But these outrageous prices are ridiculous and I totally
agree with you re: pdf - I als have a pdf library that's fairly large, and
I assume most of us do -
On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Radovan Misovic wrote:
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.
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From: "Alan Sondheim" <[email protected]>
To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity"
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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
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