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“They’re our biggest customer, we want them to succeed. As I recover from being punched in the face by Amazon, I also worry: What if they are a bubble? What if the stock market suddenly says, ‘We want a profit’? You don’t want your father who abuses you physically to lose his job.” -Senior Editor at a major publisher
"Cheap Words: Is Amazon Bad for Books?" by George Packer in The New Yorker
Book Trailer for B.J. Novak's "One More Thing." "I have done it! I have written a book! And now I can impress the girl of my dreams in a cafe."
"I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people." RIP, Nelson Mandela.
A New Banksy Sprouts in LA
"Is it so wrong to be human after all?"
From "Something About You" by Level 42, re: the @Horse_ebooks revelation today. RIP
WritersCast Interviews Code Meet Print's Glenn Nano
The Code Meet Print Interview by WritersCast's David Wilk
In which the wonderful David Wilk – publishing, distribution and author relations and marketing executive – talks to me about startups vs. growth opportunities, content's "race to free," and whether innovation = economic value creation. And video games.
"Reading behaviors can be disconnected from economic production...and that's a problem for anyone in the business of trying to tell a story and trying to charge for it."
Full audio at WritersCast here.
Twitter Fiction Festival: Code Meet Print Event on Nov 29th at General Assembly, NYC
The first ever Twitter Fiction Festival is Nov 28-Dec 2nd and Code Meet Print is hosting the event "Twitter, Fiction and Prototyping" at General Assembly in NYC on Nov 29th to celebrate!
Code Meet Print celebrates the first ever Twitter Fiction Festivalby hosting a night to discuss the state of Twitter fiction, to lead a mini-workshop on rapid prototyping of Twitter/Literature products and, in the spirit of the holidays, to drink and be merry.
To Attend: Please RSVP here at Meetup.com AND purchase a ticket at Eventbrite: http://cmptwitter.eventbrite.com *
"Twitter Fiction: Then, Now and Soon"**
Richard Nash, formerly of Soft Skull Press and now VP of Content and Community at Small Demons and Mia Eaton, Editor-at-Large of LIT Magazine join Glenn Nano to discuss the collision of fiction and Twitter, highlight some of the choicest bits so far, and wonder out loud where things might go from here.
Very Short Story (#VSS) Contest
After having conducted four such contests in 2011, Code Meet Print teams with the Twitter Fiction Festival to present its Official #VSS Contest. See veryshortstory.net for more info, to read the submissions and see the winners.
Make Something: Prototyping a "Twitter Book Club"
Chris Steib, former Director of Product at Thrillist, Founder of online lit journal VoidMagazine and now VP of Product at Delivery.com takes us on a crash-course in Product Management and breaks us into interdisciplinary teams to bring to life different versions of a "Twitter Book Club."
Beer and wine served. Interrupting encouraged. Hope to see you all there (or via Twitter using hashtag #cmp)!
* Attendees must have RSVP'd on both this Meetup.com group and purchased tickets at Eventbrite.
** Recommended reading:
Rick Moody (2009). "Some Contemporary Characters". Electric Literature (aggregated here)
Ryan Call (2009). "Some Reactions to 'Some Contemporary Characters' by Rick Moody". HTML Giant
Jennifer Egan (2012). "Black Box". The New Yorker (at storify.com here)
@MayorEmanuel account from Sep 2010-February 2011 (aggregated here)
Macy Halford (2011). "Teju Cole's Small Fates". The New Yorker
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Because thousands of books at PowerHouse Arena were soaked by Hurricane Sandy. Because you want a chance to see Paul Auster, Jennifer Egan, Teju Cole and Jonathan Franzen read in one place on one day. Because Rick Moody will be playing music. And because SandyHatesBooks. Saturday Nov 17th, 12-9PM. Suggested Donation $10.
The First Twitter Fiction Festival
Twitter has announced its first Twitter Fiction Festival, November 28th-December 2nd. In their words:
"Twitter is a frontier for creative experimentation, and we want to invite authors and creative storytellers around the world to push the bounds of what’s possible with Twitter content. If you’d like to take part in the Twitter Fiction Festival, submit your idea here. Tell us how you are going to explore content formats that already exist on Twitter — short story in Tweets, a Twitter chat, live-tweeting — or, even better, how you’ll create a new one. How will you work with our real-time global platform, where anyone can contribute to your story at any moment?"
We at Code Meet Print would certainly like to take part. What sort or projects, experiments or stories might be worth exploring for the Festival? Ones that might furthest push the edges of narrative, community or dialogue unique to Twitter and its platform and participants? The deadline for submissions is November 15th. The Code Meet Print deadline for "brainstorms" on this message board will be Friday, November 9th. Excited to work with you again! Glenn @soonisnow
Isn't Piracy Missing the Point?
Given the the delayed SOPA/PIPA voting and Code Meet Print's continued exploration of innovation across content experiences as well as commerce models, I thought it would be pertinent to assemble a different flavor of speakers for the next #CMPNY Meetup.*
A Call for Submissions: Please respond with ideas/suggestions or hopes/dreams of people who hold sway within media, publishing, IP law, technology, government, or anywhere at their intersections that might lend their expertise, perspectives, and/or invectives toward the state of affairs of content and its oscillating boundaries.
Perhaps one of these people is you, or a colleague, or a distant cousin?
I have some people in mind, but I think it's time to hear more from you, those that make Code Meet Print excellent, thoughtful, engaging, cheeky.
A possible Prompt: "Isn't Piracy Missing the Point?"
Have at it, ladies and gentlemen.**
-GN
*Sometime in Middlemarch. Or the cruellest month.
**Feel free to post/share any pertinent SOPA/PIPA articles for our shared knowledge base here. Feel similarly about any invectives (yours or otherwise) thereof.
"The Miracle Worker" by Mia Alvar in The Missouri Review
One of our (dear) Code Meet Print members, Mia Alvar, has a wonderful short story just published in the The Missouri Review winter issue. "'The Miracle Worker' is a part of a collection about Filipino exiles, immigrants and wanderers who uproot their families, settle on alien ground and struggle to connect across real and imagined borders," says the author.
A year had passed since my husband, Ed, and I had moved from the Philippines to Bahrain, and still I thought of these three stories as “the” house—not “our” house, certainly not “my.” Expatriate families like ours were well-provided for: a car, a travel allowance, the promise of schooling if we were ever to have a child. Strangest of these provisions, to me, was the house. Too large for two people, it was outfitted with luxuries I would never have chosen myself: gold leather upholstery, curtains embroidered with camels and date trees, shelves and tables with brass frames and glass surfaces. Plush red carpeting covered every inch of floor except in the bathrooms and the kitchen. We wanted for nothing, and none of it was ours.
The Missouri Review is available in NYC at Barnes & Noble (let us know where else?). Mia is also headed to Yaddo (whose writers have won 66 Pulitzer Prizes and 61 National Book awards) next week. #Kudos
"But there are two ways to solve problems: One of them is implementing a feature, making it a setting, or something to just kind of quell users who are saying, "Man I wish I did this" versus inventing a completely new product that solves all of the old problems of all those makeshift tools, but serves users in a completely new way. -- David Karp
"So What Do You Do, David Karp, Founder of Tumblr?" Mediabistro, 27 August 2008
Code Meet Presents: 11 Texts + Tech Holiday Gifts
I couldn't resist doing a list.
Please find below a little list of gifts to for friends, family, and kids across the intersections of Texts, Tech, Media, and well, great reading.
1. The Broadcast
Since we can't easily show off our exquisite taste in reading to other subway and coffee-shop-goers in the age of digital, why not let the world know what books you love with an iPhone cover or vintage-feeling t-shirt? Our friends at Out of Print let you do just that.
2. The Bespoke
Our hometown favorite McNally Jackson boasts just 1 of 80 Espresso Book Machines worldwide, where you can choose from a cloud library of 7 million titles to print books on-demand. They're even doing a holiday special that can include "Your message on the back, your note inside" if you so choose. Re-gift risk: low.
3. The Reader
Flipboard needs little explanation to the Code Meet Print community, e.g. saying it is pushing the edges of how we consume and experience media and enabling all manner of reading delight across our news and social feeds. Gift it to anyone with an iOS device who doesn't yet have it. (They just launched the iPhone app last week.) Oh, and it's free.
4. The Cruellest
I wanted to call this one "The Stuffiest" but I just couldn't avoid a mini-quote from this required collegiate reading. "The Waste Land" gets its iPad remix from Touch Press, including what Faber's Poetry Editor says is a "hitherto unknown recording of Eliot reading" from 1933, featuring the poet's signature Missouri/English accent. Gift it straight from your IPad or iTunes on any computer.
5. The Stylus (Analog)
Because no digital medium will last longer than paper. And because the fastest and sometimes best wireframing and brainstorming tool is still pen(cil) and paper.
6. The Dust Jacket
"Made from black Moroccan cloth and constructed using traditional bookbinding techniques" makes this iPad 2 case a bookish exterior indeed. Last day to have them monogrammed in time for XMas delivery is today!
7. The Code Meet(s) Print
A free eBook highlighting the best articles from 5 years of Smashing Magazine, including "Print Loves Web" and "Ten Usability Guidelines and Principles". A must for anyone at the center of the intersection of Texts + Tech.
8. The Splurge
“I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art." Indeed. Not quite secret-santa-priced at $2,500 at the Strand Rare Book floor, but this rare 1st edition (Paris: Olympia Press, 1955) would to be worth it to many learned scholars, and not just lepidopterologists.
9. The Graffiti
Tell the stories you always wish you could with aerosol, in a notebook. For $17. I'm looking at you, Banksy.
10. The Transmedia
The app that is a book about books that is a movie that is expanding the way touch screens let us experience stories. For kids of every age. Give it.
11. The Stylus (Capacitive Touch Screen)*
I first saw Cosmonaut Stylus via @marcoarment and can't wait to give it a whirl. Re: tablet compatibility: "As a rule of thumb, if it works with your finger, it will work with the Cosmonaut." *OK, so this one doesn't ship for another 4 or so, but, gifts can be tardy, right?
-GN
The "Prognostications: 2012" Twitter #VSS Winner
The 4th installment of our Twitter Very Short Story Contest at the #CMPNY Version 4.0 "Content + Conversation" meetup at General Assembly incited raucous (in its own way) voting, as 2 of the 7 finalists (@cmensher and @BritBlalock) were so close we had to repeat the process, just for them.
In the end, it was Corey Menscher, Co-Founder of Findings (and one of our distinguished speakers for the evening) who was the victor.*
Congratulations Mr. Menscher! A Kindle Fire is on its way.
*His #VSS prompted a snap-survey which revealed that the vast majority of even this bookish tech group had not (yet?) read Ulysses.
#CMPNY Twitter Very Short Story “Prognostications: 2012” Contest, Finalist 7
#CMPNY Twitter Very Short Story “Prognostications: 2012” Contest, Finalist 6
#CMPNY Twitter Very Short Story "Prognostications: 2012" Contest, Finalist 5