Pynchon eBook Trailer

[Mark Kohut]

Seems that an ability now to put in pagination for ebooks is growing 
and there are now ways.....
 
Scholars at Candlebrow asked how they could cite w/out them?

From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: Pynchon eBook Trailer

On 6/13/2012 1:11 PM, rich wrote:
> why are they calling these ebooks "new editions"?

there are some innovations, in GR at least

table of contents

"screaming comes across the sky" is all caps.

>
> 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

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.








>
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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