dot com not org
Wild Script and Print has kindly linked to the small town, corn dog, legacy site, FotB.com rather than the much more accomplished and big city Institute FotB.org.
pbi uk
Collective Workshops will adopt many of the features of
Paper and Book Intensive, but in England.
er, change
“The O’Reilly
Tools of Change for Publishing Conference raises the level of technology knowledge and discourse in the publishing industry, and provides a meeting ground for everyone involved in the future of publishing.”
The 2007 conference hyperventilated the hybrid of a physical book with electronic pages and live links. This theme can be an issue again in 2008. The FotB view is that (much as early TV escaped cinema conventions) the hand held reading device will configure its functionality immediately following escape from the print exemplar.
haptic station
“When sanded and beveled correctly it should feel smooth to the touch and while folding paper it should provide enough drag for you to feel the tooth of the paper without it feeling rough.”
Volcano Arts
scribe, script, scroll
Susan Kapuscinski is our wonderful Good Spirit guide to living books. Watch for her soon to spin tale of the story of her Spirit Books. Look at her happy site. Learn of her Good Works, dark books and light. See the elegant script.
true story
A few years ago
Shanna Leino buried a book in a waxed linen pocket. A year later she sent me another book with a story that told of a buried book left by a wandering Coptic monk who had passed through Coralville Iowa. Sure enough! I was able to use the clues to unearth the ancient codex. So the book was in nature and history and that was its quality and the story of the Coptic monk in Iowa now seemed true.
print wiki
“Some Wikipedias release or plan to release regular snapshots. The German Wikipedia is released twice a year as a DVD, in collaboration with Directmedia Publishing, and the Polish Wikipedia has released one DVD of content.”
The day will come when the snapshots will be conveyed to print. That will signal the full cycle from manuscript to print, from screen pre-press to paper and from digital transmission to persistent digital delivery. Our time will come.