16 Nov 2016 — Open Source Books and online archive.
From Silvia Lanfranchi to Nuphap Aunyanuphap
Hi Nuphap!
First, I would like to send you a photo of our very first brainstorm that i pin on my wall and saw everyday when i get up in the morning! :)
→ About distribution and sell
According to our brainstorm, I think we can try to define different types of distribution. Here are some:
- Bookshop / independent
- ISBN [ but i talked in the last post that we don’t need ]
- Online Platform
- Social Media
- By mail / Subscription
- Postcard with code for download
- Crowdfunding
From now, i try to do a research what is our best way!
Anyway literature topic it’s a good idea!
I think it’s very simple to find stories online in open archive!
In this case, we will also have no problem with copywriting.
I like work on Open Source things! This open data are the future, i think!
I find in “Il futuro del Libro” of Robert Darnton a chapter that talk about copyright in this extent!
→ The license of the published title will be converted to public domain if the author has been dead more than 70 years, the work is in the public domain in most, but not all, countries.!
How long does copyright extend today?
According to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 (also known as “the Mickey Mouse Protection Act,” because Mickey was about to fall into the public domain), it lasts as long as the life of the author plus seventy years. In practice, that normally would mean more than a century. Most books published in the twentieth century have not yet entered the public domain. When it comes to digitization, access to our cultural heritage generally ends on January 1, 1923, the date from which great numbers of books are subject to copyright laws. It will remain there — unless private interests take over the digitizing, package it for consumers, tie the packages up by means of legal deals, and sell them for the profit of the shareholders. As things stand now, for example, Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt, published in 1922, is in the public domain, whereas Lewis’s Elmer Gantry, published in 1927, will not enter the public domain until 2022.
→ I looked into some of the open archive of books. Here’s what I found.
https://www.gutenberg.org/
https://books.google.com/
https://archive.org/index.php
http://www.readprint.com/
http://freecomputerbooks.com/
https://librivox.org/
http://manybooks.net/
http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
https://archive.org/details/texts
http://worldpubliclibrary.org/
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.bibliomania.com/
https://openlibrary.org/
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
http://worldebookfair.com/
http://www.bartleby.com/
http://www.fullbooks.com/
→ Super cool the Print Club in Torino!
That remember to me when I taught in a self publishing workshop that name was IMPRESSA [You can see some photos on the link]. Now my colleague Keita has opened a laboratory near Brescia that name is Matrici Aperte.
And they have a Riso-graph printer! ❤
I like to print and i wanted to go with you soon!
Now is impossible because i’m working full time at mare! :)
I send to you my pinterest board about editorial design that i collect in this years> maybe is useful!
I also found some other suggestion at MACBA in Barcelona:
→ I bought also this book “Farsi un libro by Angiolo Bandinelli, Giovanni Lussu, Roberto Iacobelli from Stampa alternativa”.
They are an author, a graphic designer and a printer and write about the process to doing a book.
I give to you soon!
→ I find online also this publishing house : Informant.
They publish only online book but the graphic it’s cool!
Also Draw Down is interesting!
This is Forme Fluide by makethisstudio.
→ Stefano suggest to us: Stack Magazines
Stack selects the best independent magazines and delivers them direct to your door. Steven Watson, founder of Stack, write:
“I started Stack because I think people want something better to read. There are piles of fantastic magazines out there just waiting to be discovered, and Stack makes it cheaper and easier than ever for people to find and enjoy them.”
He convinced me so i subscribe and some week ago i recived this:
Labybeard takes the form and format of glossy magazine but revolutionises the content. They platform the voices that you won’t hear in a women’s magazines. Are feminist but not just for women. They want to play with gender, sexuality and identity.
That’s all from this side!
See you soon and give to you this book!
Silvia
