Will I be compelled to go paperless???
icarp...@aol.com
death of the paper Cthulhu mythos book some day. I was trolling for
new books on Amazon and found a Kindle only story. I really prefer my
books but I wonder if this is the wave of the future, no other
editions available.
Matt
Black Water: A Cthulhu Story [Axiom-man Saga] (Digital Monsters)
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Bodies litter the sand of a friendly beach. They have no muscles. No
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Harksen
> No doubt discussed in other forums (fora?) I am wondering about the
> death of the paper Cthulhu mythos book some day.
Hopefully not. I see no problem with supplementing with digital
publications--and certainly some will prefer those over paper--but I
don't think paper publications will cease to be produced. Maybe only
thanks to POD technique--improving every year, but I see no problem
with that, personally.
Btw, yes, technically it is "fora";-)
-Henrik
W. Hopfrog Pugmire, Esq.
I agree with Henrik, there will always be small press publishers who
will publish books. Over at The Haunt some folks are trying to say
that every small press will eventually go digital. If that happens,
I'll publish my own collections. It's gott a be a book for me as an
author -- or nothing.
Evans
wrote:
I agree, it would be a terrible shame if short print publications
should die out altogether. Some day I hope to be able to publish a few
chapbooks of obscure, late nineteenth century weird fiction.
Al Smith
I don't see print books ever dying out. They are going to become
only one of two media -- books and electronic files -- but there are
advantages to books that should preserve them. I do see such things
as overall design, book illustration, choice of fonts, choice of
paper, and so on becoming more significant in printed books as
electronic books become more mainstream. The tactile impression of a
book will become more important.
-Al-
icarp...@aol.com
will also be a considerable amount of publication, increasing in the
future, that is strictly paperless, as this story is.
I think it may end being necessary for a completist like me to have
access to both. Who knows, in a few years I may end up buying a
Kindle or some clone, even though I very much prefer books.
Matt
TJ
Do what I do. Print it out, put it in a binder. I have to do that,
in order to read it (eyesight) if it's long, or even a few pages
long. The problem with fanzines, as we found out as time progressed,
is that you have to be able to afford to lose money (forget breaking
even).
On a totally unrelated subject, I found a review of Eisenman by Bob
Price. I've saved it to print it out - it was too hard to read it on
a puter screen for me. I'll read it - even tho it's very dated
material (as is Eisenman). Not mythos related.