Pynchon eBook Trailer

[Paul Mackin]

On 6/13/2012 3:14 PM, Iris Sirius wrote:
> As I sit here tapping my fingers, watching the downloaded-bar inch 
> across its archaic machination, incepting, little by little, 
> waveafterwave, uselessly distracted now from actual work, another day 
> shot to hell, god what a way to ruin a career, cap it off with 
> Prometheus, I was dwelling on Pynchon gone all e on the world, 
> something his rep at ePenguin said to the inquiring reporter, that the 
> guy did it, he caved on the e, because like all writers he wants more 
> and evermore readers?
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> Is that for real.  Or am I dreaming it.  That's a serious literature 
> person at ePenguin's considered opinion of why he went e?  He thought, 
> my next book will be 1500 pages, but if it's on e so I'll get more 
> readers for it--

He's  tired of dragging his feet over a lost cause.  He not getting any 
younger. Probably still has a kid in college. Melanie isn't going to 
want to work forever. Living costs are increasing--high rent 
neighborhood. He wants nice things for his family.

BTW, another innovation in Kindle GR--the little hole deals are blacked 
in--not an improvement.

P


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> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net 
> <mailto:mackin.paul at verizon.net>> wrote:
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>     On 6/13/2012 1:11 PM, rich wrote:
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>         why are they calling these ebooks "new editions"?
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>     there are some innovations, in GR at least
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>     table of contents
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>     "screaming comes across the sky" is all caps.
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>         you can view samples on amazon site for each of the
>         books--they all
>         have the same font. wonder what that will do in terms of
>         pagination
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>     It's a continuous scroll on the Kindle.   No pagination.
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>     At least on the non touch screen Kindle you can reference the
>     Viking pagination--couldn't figure out how to do this on the
>     Kindle Fire I use for night reading.
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>     Guess pagination is kind of 20th Century.
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>         On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Dave Monroe
>         <against.the.dave at gmail.com
>         <mailto:against.the.dave at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>             On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Henry M
>             <scuffling at gmail.com <mailto:scuffling at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>                 http://greg.org/archive/2012/06/12/thomas_pynchons_e-book_trailer.html
>                 greg.org <http://greg.org>: the making of: Thomas
>                 Pynchon's e-Book Trailer
>                 By greg
>                 Thomas Pynchon's e-Book Trailer. Four words that I,
>                 for one, ever expected
>                 to type in this sequence, but here we are. After Long
>                 Resistance,
>                 Pynchon Allows Novels to Be Sold as E-Books [nyt]
>                 Thomas Pynchon on
>                 Kindle someday,
>                 but not yet ..
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>             Thomas Pynchon - The Complete Collection - eBooks
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>             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urNQ8S4EBGA
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