New from Chance Press!

[jordan]

the deluxe of the 1st edition had a mini chapbook that was just more stuff from my blog (stuff that i barely debloggified), and i added it as an addendum to the 2nd ed. i'm all for everyone buying the 2nd edition, but we're really talking about 3 or 4 pages of stuff that's already online (and will stay online, unlike smog.net), so keep that in mind while sorting out your finances. that being said, CP's first hardcover will be wildly valuable someday, so there's that.

And I was turned on to this style of binding my my friends at Lead Graffiti.

ahh, the originators... http://leadgraffiti.myshopify.com/products/a-little-geste-by-daniel-hoffman

 

[Rekrab]

But those 3 or 4 additional pages will be in that second edition forever, after the Internet has gone poof in a cloud of postapocalyptic dust. Speaking of which, none other than THE NEW SCIENTIST is warning about what they call Digital Doomsday. The gist of it is that printed, physical books and records last thousands of years but digital information was never designed for permanence and degrades and becomes inaccessible in a few years. Scientists are worried that we will descend into a new dark age as all books and journals go electronic, while the economy continues to collapse, while peak oil reduces our ability to do anything and everything, while global climate change wrecks havoc. So it's not just us binding sniffers who have doubts about eBooks. I'll probably buy the second edition...

 

[mjp]

ahh, the originators...

I'm quite sure I've seen that boards-on-cloth-spine a few times before, going back many, many years. So maybe they are not the originators. Not that it matters, outside a small society of binding sniffers, freaks and glue heads...

 

[strangegirl]

Jordon please reserve one for me as well since I missed out the first time.

Bill took me to visit Lead Graffiti and it was really impressive, Jill and Ray were incredibly nice and the print shop was great, I had to keep the drool from spilling out of my mouth. Those folks do some really beautiful work, no doubt.