tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post7927737341846559938..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Getting Medieval On Your Text - Susan PriceKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-38210268166721707522012-07-03T14:30:54.076+01:002012-07-03T14:30:54.076+01:00Hmmm - like the idea of your mix book ...Hmmm - like the idea of your mix book ...julia joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09773900100240758504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-32277930929293369132012-06-25T20:54:24.220+01:002012-06-25T20:54:24.220+01:00Wonderful overview you've provided there, Susa...Wonderful overview you've provided there, Susan, thanks!<br />There is something strangely satisfying about reading Dickens, for example, on a Kindle...an ancient book would create even more of a unison with past and present/future...the fusion is exciting. <br />The breaking down of that unoffical lazy censorship barrier the publishers had, through epublishing, is even more exciting. <br />Came across the more poignant side of these technological upheavals the other day though, when looking up the biography of the Japanese director, Akira Kurosawa.<br />His brother, Heigo Kurosawa, had a very successful career in the silent film industry as a benshi, narrating foreign films for Tokyo audiences. <br />When talking films came in, he lost work, then committed suicide...leaving his brother Akira Kurosawa to go on and become the greatest talking film director Japan has ever had.John A. A. Loganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03613779477853664598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-8010093992294983322012-06-25T16:39:09.963+01:002012-06-25T16:39:09.963+01:00Loved this post! Made me smile, too (it's the ...Loved this post! Made me smile, too (it's the way you tell them...)<br /><br />Yes, I think you're right and ebooks with their simple and cheap distribution to a worldwide market are one of the big "leaps" that will change the way our words reach readers... though perhaps that change was already happening with blogs, etc? From being a handful of people able to publish, we now have hundreds of thousands of people publishing and reaching readers all over the world at the click of a mouse. The actual content and editorial/design side of an ebook has not changed all that much, but the traditional printing, warehousing and distribution are no longer necessary. That's the real change, I think.Katherine Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-84881840837309213502012-06-25T16:23:45.134+01:002012-06-25T16:23:45.134+01:00It's a brilliant sketch, isn't it?It's a brilliant sketch, isn't it?Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-59547514205282437642012-06-25T12:33:28.997+01:002012-06-25T12:33:28.997+01:00I loved that video clip! Good to have a Monday mor...I loved that video clip! Good to have a Monday morning smile!madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-70047475926923036892012-06-25T10:17:22.263+01:002012-06-25T10:17:22.263+01:00Yes - I think Alexander the Great's first biog...Yes - I think Alexander the Great's first biographers thought it worth while pointing out that he read silently.<br />I was about 9 when it occurred to me that I didn't have to read aloud - the first in my class! Which the teacher pointed out to the others, thereby making my life harder than it needed to be.Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-86561867502234806382012-06-25T03:21:10.106+01:002012-06-25T03:21:10.106+01:00It always interests me that apparently it took a l...It always interests me that apparently it took a long time for people to actually read silently. Even if you were reading to yourself you read aloud until (I think) about the 12th C. It must have slowed the reading process down - probably a good thing when you consider how long it took to actually produce the books.catdownunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06959328192182156574noreply@blogger.com