“We have been encouraging people to share things, saying that it is a good business decision,” he said….
Publishing a book is an extension of the selling of items like T-shirts and posters, which pays the bills, he said, to a “free culture” mind-set about the cartoons themselves. This is print book as vinyl record - admired for its look and feel, its cover art, and relative permanence - but not so much for convenience.Īnd then there’s the more important point about Randall Munroe not worrying about copying of the content - and instead focusing on the other direction: In fact, the xkcd story previews the much more likely future of books in which they are prized as artifacts, not as mechanisms for delivering written material to readers. There are some key quotes in there, including:
Mon, Apr 20th 2009 04:59pm - Mike MasnickĪ bunch of folks have been sending in the NY Times story about how the online comic xkcd is going to be putting out a book, and that it’s being done avoiding the traditional book publishing process.
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