Pynchon eBook Trailer
Iris Sirius
irissiriustce at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 15:04:23 CDT 2012
I took the rep to mean Pynchon just wants more readers, by which he meant
Pynchon just wants more readers.
My opinion of the decision was and probably still is that Pynchon is
possibly nearing a threshold of death and wants no one else to decide his
fate, and that his fate is e, so sign the papers now before he's dead.
He's always known the day would come. It arrived. A type of literary
singularity.
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>wrote:
> 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?
>
> 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.
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> P
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> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Paul Mackin <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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> http://greg.org/archive/2012/06/12/thomas_pynchons_e-book_trailer.html
>>>>> 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 ..
>>>>>
>>>> Thomas Pynchon - The Complete Collection - eBooks
>>>>
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urNQ8S4EBGA
>>>>
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