The Espresso Book Machine

By Silvio Lorusso, July 14, 2011

The Espresso Book Machine allows to print a book in minutes. It’s perfect for self-publishing because one can print as many copy as he or she needs. When a book is printed it may be stored in the database so customers from all around the world can buy prints of it. One can also print [...]

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 [...]

Theory on Demand: an interview with editor Margreet Riphagen

By morgancurrie, June 22, 2011

Geert Lovink at the launch of Theory on Demand books #1 through #4 Margreet Riphagen is the Institute of Network Culture’s project manager and the editor of the Theory on Demand book series. Here she explains TOD project’s background and how it operates as action-oriented research – and also proof the exploding possibilities for publishing [...]

Publications Overview in EPUB format

By Silvio Lorusso, June 20, 2011

The publication overview is now available in EPUB format. This release represents an experiment on employing open standards for INC digital publishing. The catalogue includes INC Reader series, Studies in Network Cultures, Network Notebooks, Theory on Demand and some miscellaneous titles. Download EPUB from here.

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 [...]

The Public in Publication Studio

By morgancurrie, June 9, 2011

Matthew Stadler has written a detailed day-in-the-life story in Design Observer about his innovative publishing studio…part printing press, part community event project, part hybrid store front business that, here’s hoping, may soon become a settled model of what bookmaking could look like. The entity calls itself modestly Publication Studio, founded by Stadler, former editor of [...]

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 [...]

Theory on Demand Readers available on Scribd and Issuu

By Silvio Lorusso, June 8, 2011

At the following links you can find all the Theory on Demand readers published till now. In addition, several other readers by the INC are available for browsing and free download. In the next days the catalogue will be updated with the missing documents. INC’s bookshelf on Scribd. INC’s bookshelf on Issuu. About Scribd: Scribd [...]