Posts By: lilyantflick

Distant Reading: Gone too Far?

By lilyantflick, July 11, 2011

The terms, ‘distant reading’ and ‘digital humanities’ have become commonplace in the new media and publishing landscape. These terms have been popularized and put to practice by the Standford Literary Lab which pursues literary research through quantitative and digital analysis. The Lab opened last year with the hope of clarifying any confusion within certain literary [...]
According to the aim to test different ways to produce...

Theory on Demand on Espresso Book Machine

By lilyantflick, July 6, 2011

According to the aim to test different ways to produce and publish ToD books, we experimented the Espresso Book Machine (here‘s a post about it) located in the American Book Center of Amsterdam. We printed a copy of Image, Time and Motion, edited by Andreas Treske, Ufuk Önen, Bestem Büyüm and I. Alev Değim. The [...]

Book Publication as Community Formation

By lilyantflick, June 14, 2011

Digital distribution and affordable print on demand technologies are now a fact of publishing. The inefficiency of traditional print models are no longer a cause for concern as writers can now easily reach and establish a global readership. In his talk entitled “What is Publication?”, Matthew Stadler, the founder of Publication Studio discusses how a [...]
Flat World Knowledge represents a revolution in the field of...

Flat World Knowledge

By lilyantflick, June 11, 2011

Flat World Knowledge represents a revolution in the field of textbook publishing. The model is characterized by a mash-up of all the current tendencies concerning the book in the digital era: multimediality, e-learning, print on demand, social reading, text customization, etc. [youtube width=”600″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81zVcWcfAcU[/youtube] First of all, Flat World Knowledge gives free* access to textbooks [...]

TYPE TOWN: 60 Years of Book Design in St. Gallen, Switzerland

By lilyantflick, June 8, 2011

Internationally renowned designer and professor, Jost Hochuli and Swiss typographer Roland Stieger come together on June 16th 2011 in New York City to reflect on the past sixty years of beautiful book design as well as discuss the future of design in the Swiss town of St. Gallen. The talk will be moderated by the [...]