surge to machine book vending
The High Tech book Vending Machine arrives
Posted at 7:06AM Friday 30th November 2001 by b2b newsdesk
Oxford based, book.stop have placed 25 “up-market” book vending
machines and plan 4000 more in the UK market. book.stop are
headed up by MD, Phil Rattray, who commented that these
machines will stock 30 or so of the best selling paperbacks and be
on duty in hotel lobbies, airports, libraries and hospitals, 24 hours a
day/365 days a year and accept cash or credit cards.
(more)
***”What is wrong with this picture? Morbo demands an answer!”
FotB (to no one’s relief) will be providing
comments on the
Text-e Symposium position papers. And (again, to no one’s relief) FotB continues its weird query on
Legibility in Book Art.
awesome virtual conference concerning FotB
“An extraordinary online event — of interest to anyone involved
in books, writing, libraries, digital text, ebooks, online video,
“information”, econferencing, or the Internet or the Minitel or a
lot of other things — is taking place right now and over the
next few months at,”
http://www.text-e.org
“Roger Chartier, Stephen Harnad, Theodore Zeldin, and many other
luminaries, discussing “texts” and various favorite subjects
even Jason Epstein, talking about and discussing (with you!)
“Reading: The Digital Future” and Umberto Eco, opining on
“Authors and Authority”, and wondering, “Do intellectuals play
the role of a Web – filter?” ”
“And everything is free – of – charge. Participants / viewers /
you can download free ebooks, watch free videos, and take part in
open online discussions with other viewers and with the
“speakers”: just think, Roger Chartier and Jason Epstein and
Umberto Eco, answering your questions and arguing with you about
“the decline of the book” and “etexts” ”
(is this cool..or what? FotB [Pour l'Ètude du livre dans toutes ses transformations] has been linked from the text-e symposium site)
FotB is two years old
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