Monday's World Service interview saw me extolling the possible if under-exploited virtues of e-books. By Friday I'm on BBC Ten O'Clock news talking about he virtues of print-on-demand. I suppose there isn't a real contradiction - they are different channels, producing a product with different potential. Friday's interview is difficult - the crew are 2 hours late and the first cut is abandoned for technical reasons. That was probably my best shot: I prefer live to recorded any time.
Finish off Marinetti's novel 'Mafarka the futurist: an African novel'. It's almost the founding text of magical realism and you can see why Marinetti was jailed for indecency. Mafarka's creation, Gazourmah, I sadly equate/confuse with Anthony Gormley's sculpture, 'Angel of the North'. My copy of 'Mafarka' is published by Middlesex University Press, funded by the Arts Council, and is almost (but not quite) a print-on-demand book. It's got an interesting introduction by Carol Diethe.
The way ahead has to be books on demand.
I am a self publisher and I know that this is the way forward as I can offer my readers the book in e format or printed, without having to go through massive print runs either.
Posted by: Travel Insurance 80 | 16 October 2009 at 08:57 AM