a) this is a great idea! Do it! All scholarship should be open access and I
can't recommend it highly enough for both the moral reasons and for the
attention it brings to a work.
b) scholarly works can be tricky... if this is a book intended for scholars,
don't expect anyone to do a lot of wi
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Radhika, Y. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nishant...I am really waiting to see Ashish's book.A few years ago I met
> Ashish briefly in connection with my own work (am writing a script that
> loosely incorporates the indian cinema phenom in Europe in the 50s). Pleas
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Amit Varma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > We are definitely
> > going ahead with putting up the PDF online because it can serve as a
> > resource for people who might also want to cite it, reference it, read it
> > etc.
> >
>
> Nishant, please do share the lin
Nishant...I am really waiting to see Ashish's book.A few years ago I met
Ashish briefly in connection with my own work (am writing a script that
loosely incorporates the indian cinema phenom in Europe in the 50s). Please
do keep us posted.
Cheers.
Radhika
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Amit V
>
> We are definitely
> going ahead with putting up the PDF online because it can serve as a
> resource for people who might also want to cite it, reference it, read it
> etc.
>
Nishant, please do share the link when it's online, would love to read it.
--
Amit Varma
http://www.indiauncut.com
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The first question to ask is how "free" is the digital version of the
> book going to be? Is it free as in beer? Or free as in re-mixable? Or
> free as in redistribute, but do not change?
Hi Thats :)
The easy answer, as Ashis
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have some thoughts around this, but am in the middle of a conference
> (in a break right now) so I'll just throw out this list of links for
> now:
>
Hi Udhay, I hope the conference went well. I would definitely want t
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Sumant Srivathsan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
> Very, very, very involved exercise. What you're talking about is to create
> an online repository of multimedia content related to his book. While the
> idea is not new at all, it's something that many publishers ten
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Generate
> interest among your readers and get them to translate the work into
> other languages. Let people make mashups with your work.
Or write a suitably impenetrable book,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Day
s
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> says. Build a blog / wiki around the book where your audience can add
> footnotes and links to online multimedia elsewhere (youtube, flickr,
> etc.) around the celluloid media the book is referencing. Generate
> interest among yo
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Sumant Srivathsan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Very, very, very involved exercise. What you're talking about is to create
> an online repository of multimedia content related to his book. While the
> idea is not new at all, it's something that many publishers tend
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 09:55:05PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> Devdas Bhagat wrote, [on 10/14/2008 8:41 PM]:
>
> >> You are now elected the official organizer. :)
> >>
> > In which case, I am in Bangalore from the 24th evening to early morning
> > on the 1st. I suggest the weekend of the 29th/
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