thank you. that was great.
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Ken Friedman <
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> Dear Colleagues,
>
> For those who are occasionally interested in the international laboratory
> of art, architecture, design, and music known as Fluxus, a free digital
> edition of The Fluxus Reader now available. The Fluxus Reader has been out
> of print for many years now. In the run-up to the 50th anniversary of Fluxus
> in 2012, I've been getting requests for copies -- I don't have any, and I
> don't know anyone who does. It's clearly been a desirable book for some
> time. Owen Smith told me that he was already seeing used copies at $300 a
> few years back. Today, I did an Amazon search for used copies, and I found
> prices running from $449 up to $2,500! (The expensive copy seems to have a
> drawing in it, but even the "cheap" copies cost too much.)
>
> For a while, now I've wanted to make a free digital edition available, but
> the small typeface has made it difficult to get a clean copy. Rebecca
> Parker, manager of the Research Bank here at the Swinburne University
> library has gone to an expert outside service to prepare, digitize, and
> proof The Fluxus Reader. The digital copy is now available for download at:
>
> http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/42234
>
> Download times are swift over the next, but the complete book runs 36MB. To
> make it easy for those who only wish one chapter, Ms. Parker has also
> prepared a single PDF for each chapter for use as stand-alone texts. To
> preserve the coherence and continuity of the book, Rebecca set each chapter
> up with the front matter for the entire book.
>
> The book is an open access edition, configured for full search and
> accessible for copy and paste for scholars or students who wish to quote
> from the book. All details and pages are identical with the print edition.
> The PDF files are set to print out on a full-page format for easy reading.
>
> In my contract with the publisher, I kept the copyright of the book as
> editor. In making the digital edition of the Fluxus Reader available, I do
> so granting full permission for use in any format or medium.
>
> Please feel free to share this information, to distribute the URL, or to
> copy the book. Any library that wishes to add the Fluxus Reader to its
> digital resources collection is free to do so.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ken
>
> Professor Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | University Distinguished
> Professor | Dean, Faculty of Design | Swinburne University of Technology |
> Melbourne, Australia | [log in to unmask] | Ph: +61 3 9214
> 6078 | Faculty www.swinburne.edu.au/design
>
> Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life | University of Chicago Press |
> http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?isbn=9780226033594
>
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Sara Rakei - PhD Candidate
Istanbul Technical University
Institute of Science and Technology
Industrial Product Design
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