Comments on: Making Our Words Count: Canadian Authors in the Electronic Era http://www.slaw.ca/2008/05/23/making-our-words-count-canadian-authors-in-the-electronic-era/ Canada's online legal magazine Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:12:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Simon Chester http://www.slaw.ca/2008/05/23/making-our-words-count-canadian-authors-in-the-electronic-era/comment-page-1/#comment-450699 Simon Chester Thu, 29 May 2008 20:47:08 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/2008/05/23/making-our-words-count-canadian-authors-in-the-electronic-era/#comment-450699 Hadn't recognized you in the audience, Christopher. I naively assumed that once one had generated the book in whatever typesetting programme Coach House might use (way beyond Quark, obviously) that outputting to Adobe was as easy as hitting a print button, and then the issue was simply hosting the digital files on the website. As I quipped on Thursday, Coach House's books have always been so gorgeous that the mere fact that one could do a print dump wouldn't cut into sales that were realistic. The example that I tend to use is <em>An Leabhar Mòr</em> or the<a href="http://www.leabharmor.net/" rel="nofollow">Great Book of Gaelic</a>, whose free website drove me - and many others - to buy a glorious book. The pages can be seen starting <a href="http://www.leabharmor.net/frontispiece.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Hadn't recognized you in the audience, Christopher. I naively assumed that once one had generated the book in whatever typesetting programme Coach House might use (way beyond Quark, obviously) that outputting to Adobe was as easy as hitting a print button, and then the issue was simply hosting the digital files on the website.

As I quipped on Thursday, Coach House's books have always been so gorgeous that the mere fact that one could do a print dump wouldn't cut into sales that were realistic.

The example that I tend to use is An Leabhar Mòr or theGreat Book of Gaelic, whose free website drove me – and many others – to buy a glorious book. The pages can be seen starting here.

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]]> By: Connie Crosby http://www.slaw.ca/2008/05/23/making-our-words-count-canadian-authors-in-the-electronic-era/comment-page-1/#comment-442479 Connie Crosby Fri, 23 May 2008 20:45:56 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/2008/05/23/making-our-words-count-canadian-authors-in-the-electronic-era/#comment-442479 Fantastic! And, that is the same Bill Kennedy I mentioned with regard to <a href="http://www.slaw.ca/2008/05/05/artmob-exploring-intellectual-property-in-canada/" rel="nofollow">ArtMob</a>. Cheers. Fantastic! And, that is the same Bill Kennedy I mentioned with regard to ArtMob.

Cheers.

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