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And you work without a spectrum of possible incomes. -Joel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Biggs" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 12:37 AM Subject: Re: [WDL] Fwd: The Unbound Book > Variable media is variable. Artworks made with it are variable. Trying to > control those variables is rather pointless. You work within a spectrum of > possible outcomes. > > Best > > Simon > > > On 08/04/2011 19:38, "Joel Weishaus" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Computer monitors still register colors differently. And screen >> resolution >> makes a big difference in how a work is seen. >> Because of this, I began framing my work into a specific amount of >> pixels, >> at least horizontally. While I check colors on at least two monitors, and >> try to get something reasonable. >> Of course artists have always had similar problems over control of their >> work. Oil paint fades and darkens; marble weathers and chips; >> Taliban-minded >> people are lurking everywhere, ready to blow up what offends their >> reality. >> Even with books, as George Butterick has brilliantly shown, publishers >> set >> typos that are perpetuated in later editions; thus texts may change from >> the >> writer's original words. >> The world is in flux, and so are works of art. >> >> -Joel >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Edward Picot" <[log in to unmask]> >> To: <[log in to unmask]> >> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 10:01 AM >> Subject: Re: [WDL] Fwd: The Unbound Book >> >> >> Margaret - >> >> Has your venture into e-book self-publishing been via Smashwords, by any >> chance? The stuff about hyperlinked index and formatting sounds familiar. >> >> I like your positive attitude towards e-books, and I agree with you: I >> think >> they probably are the future. On the other hand, of course, there are all >> these stupid compatibility issues. Epub is the best format, but Kindle >> doesn't like it. Colour is one of the big advantages of e-publishing, but >> Kindle doesn't do colour. Page layout is really tricky because there are >> so >> many different-sized readers. Even things like hyperlinks and >> rollovers... a >> lot of e-readers (like the crappy one I got from Waterstones, purely >> because >> someone gave me a load of Waterstones tokens) don't have touch-screen, >> which >> means you can't click a link or activate a rollover. >> >> I think a lot of these compatibility issues will probably disappear >> within >> the next couple of years: I don't think non-touch-screen e-readers are >> going >> to be around much longer, for example; and I'm sure Kindle will want to >> add >> colour as soon as they can do it at a reasonable price and without >> compromising their much-vaunted text quality. We may then find ourselves >> in >> a very interesting place, because with zero storage and distribution >> costs >> minority-interest publishing will be a really good opportunity for >> anybody >> who fancies giving it a go. >> >> - Edward >> >> ********** >> * To alter your subscription settings on this list, log on to >> Subscriber's >> Corner at >> http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/writing-and-the-digital-life.html >> * To unsubscribe from the list, email [log in to unmask] with a >> blank >> subject line and the following text in the body of the message: SIGNOFF >> WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE >> >> ********** >> * To alter your subscription settings on this list, log on to >> Subscriber's >> Corner at >> http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/writing-and-the-digital-life.html >> * To unsubscribe from the list, email [log in to unmask] with a >> blank >> subject line and the following text in the body of the message: SIGNOFF >> WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE >> > > > Simon Biggs > [log in to unmask] > http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ > > [log in to unmask] > http://www.elmcip.net/ > http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ > > ********** > * To alter your subscription settings on this list, log on to Subscriber's > Corner at > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/writing-and-the-digital-life.html > * To unsubscribe from the list, email [log in to unmask] with a blank > subject line and the following text in the body of the message: SIGNOFF > WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE > ********** * To alter your subscription settings on this list, log on to Subscriber's Corner at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/writing-and-the-digital-life.html * To unsubscribe from the list, email [log in to unmask] with a blank subject line and the following text in the body of the message: SIGNOFF WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE