elegant proposal
With little recognition or remark, the print and paper artisans have produced a
proposal for UNESCO. It doesn’t matter what it is about, it looks worthwhile, it looks and feels magnificent!
still old
One post lost in the migration mentioned the fact that FotB is now nine years old. The very mention of the ancient server caused it to start crashing.
networked book
Evidently there is something better than the ebook which is the
networked book. Both are presented on the screen and both require some instruction and electricity, but the networked book expands on the idea of a simple mimic of the print book. The networked book grows as you read and react. It evolves like a wiki or knol and it gets bigger and bigger. It actually gets bigger than a book and more like a networked library and the reflexive commentaries on the root text are like book clubs or school classes. Whole communities of authors are brought together in interactive anthology. Its an entirely (not) new concept.
But wait maybe there is something more in play here; what about copyright?
“The license Wikipedia uses grants free access to our content in the same sense as free software is licensed freely. This principle is known as copyleft. That is to say, Wikipedia content can be copied, modified, and redistributed so long as the new version grants the same freedoms to others “
Google
Knol is trying a more hybrid approach. So the consequences of all the disputations concerning copyright violation in screen presentations are becoming moot as screen presentations evolve beyond copyright.
And one more thing .maybe screen publication is more available to authors who do not have access to print publication. Maybe there is an allure of the salon de refuses. Maybe screen publication is a kind of audition. Or maybe, in a future era of text expression in which screen publication overarches print, print will return disguised as a new format. Can the paper Wiki be that remote?