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Becky Lindroos bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net
Sat Nov 28 13:19:15 UTC 2020


Kindle also has an ebook publisher listed on that title page but it doesn’t look particularly intrusive:  
Open (Red insignia) Road
Integrated Media
New York

Everything else - the legally necessary bs, I guess,  - is in small print at the bottom of page 224 (of 224 pages).  

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"This edition published in 2013 by Open Road Integrated Media 180 Varick Street New York, NY 10014 www.openroadmedia.com "
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Becky 


> On Nov 28, 2020, at 12:28 AM, Raphael Saltwood <PlainMrBotanyB at outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> Powerful imagery, the mayor representing authority, the maltreated wench representing the governed, the Thing representing emancipatory trends?
> 
> Nook book does have an author credit, on a title page with the (caveat? disclaimer? humbleboast?) descriptive term “a novel”
> 
> And there’s the table of contents, and something I didn’t notice before reading your post (nook could theoretically add and subtract ad libitum and I would more likely doubt my memory, but it was probably there all along) - dedications!
> 
> “To my grandmother, Emma Coleman Lewis.
> And to Clarence Hill, proprietor of Libra’s on East 6th St between A & B
> And also for George Herriman, Afro-American, who created Krazy Kat.”
> 
> But, no, there aren’t printings, nor blurbs there are none although the “cover” does mention it was an NBA finalist. But the author bio at the end does have some of that legal stuff (& some cool photos, I like the one of him at the Sphinx) - publisher probably insisted.
> 
> But your point stands: we jump right in!
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Kohut wrote:
> 
> 
> In media res is my first thought. In our face: the mayor, the floozy,
> the Thing. An allusive horror story-like beginning but comic.
> 
> The book 'product' itself subverted. All the traditional set-up pages gone.
> Western structuring of the Book slapped upside the head. This story begins
> in real life, man, not after framing. Title page, printings, copyright
> shit, even that
> aesthetic blank page not necessary. Just a mayor and his broad and some
> THING.
> 
> This story just IS; this story ain't even copywrit. This story is timeless,
> a folktale,
> beyond copyright by AN AUTHOR.
> 
> 
> 
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