Print is Dead, now available
I’m happy to say that Print is Dead is now available for purchase in both print and electronic formats. I would say that it’s been a long road to get to this day, but it really hasn’t been; I wrote the book in a couple of fevered months late last year and early this year (as well as another bout of composition in May and June). I was also pretty impressed with the speed that my publishers put it together. (That being said, in some places we were too speedy and I would have liked to have had more time for another round of proofreading, but alas the schedule didn’t allow for it, which means that some typos have inevitably creeped into the text. For this I apologize and I hope that they’ll all be corrected by the paperback edition.) When I sold my first novel, in 1994, there was a sixteen month gap between when I signed the contract and when the book appeared in stores. For Print is Dead that period was barely more than a year (and, when I signed the contract, the book had not yet been written!). Of course, just because it went by so fast doesn’t mean that it was easy; it’s been a long year of writing and researching, in addition to working my regular job, moving, teaching a class, and trying do a few other creative things to retain my sanity. So, thanks to everyone for their support, and I hope that those who choose to read the book in addition to this blog will find it worthwhile. And, of course, if you’re still not convinced that you want or need the book, here’s a website where you can read and/or listen to one-third of book’s content.
Thanks.
–J
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jeff-
cory has found he gets a lot of juice from
people doing his books in different formats.
if you’d like me to convert your excerpt-book
into my z.m.l. format, as a demo for that,
i’ll be willing to do it. just let me know.
-bowerbird
bowerbird@aol.com
hi
I’m living in Canada.
How could I get a copy?
I’d prefer electronically for the Sony Reader, but…
- the Connect Store locks out Canucks
- I’m not buying their DRM-ed crap anyways
so I guess a hardcopy would do
I didn’t find the book on Amazon.ca.
Please let me know, thanks!
Dear Author,
If print is indeed “dead” why did you feel you needed to have your book available in this format? Why not ‘move forward’ and have it ONLY available in digital format?
The Committee of Concerned Librarians, CCL
I wanted this to be a printed book since I felt that to only have it available electronically would have meant it would have reached an audience who already knew and felt that print was dead. Instead of merely preaching to the converted, I wanted to reach print readers and try to do a number of things (among them, changing their minds while also putting them at ease). And since the material is available in both print and digital formats, I think that either/each audience can find it and consume it the way that they want.
and in terms of finding the book on Canadian Amazon, here’s the link:
http://www.amazon.ca/Print-Dead-Long-Live-Digital/dp/0230527167/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195074997&sr=8-15
Printing may be dead, but print [or font as printers call it] is alive and well, so am not sure why people are so fixated on paper as being the test of “moving on”.
The real test will be when something “fixed” will accommodate a READERS comments as a hyper [remember highlighting and writing your own notes or responses right on a page?] The need to be able to note or say something remains, so satisfy it, and you will indeed have found your part of the market.
Unless of course you actually want to reach ALL people, including those without computers, or constant dependable electricity. The OTHER half of the world.
To reach them you will need to work towards an equitable distribution of education and the world’s goods, and then this particular discussion can be relevant to the world, not just a niche.
jeff-
since i haven’t heard from you about converting your book,
i’ve turned it into a “lorem ipsum” kind of thing for my demo:
> http://z-m-l.com/go/pidjg/pidjg.zml
again, if you’d rather have me use the real text, let me know.
-bowerbird
I find it interesting that your book fails to notice the recent, (or in the case of Alexandra Erin, not so recent) rise in the serial web novel as a viable means of allowing the writer, especially the fiction writer, a viable and profitable outlet to their reader. It will be interesting to see how the serious researcher, such as yourself, applies this new media, say in the more rigid category of nonfiction, especially now that hosting is relatively inexpensive, and most blogging software, like WordPress, is both open source and free.
The advantages to this media are quite obviously, its ease of editing, updating, and broad transmissal, all of which are lacking in the traditional book, and even the e-book.