Une interview de Cory Doctorow

[jerome]

Cory Doctorow évoque dans cette interview un projet qui pour l'instant n'a pas de nom.

Extrait :

"ML: And then you announced your new self-publishing venture. I’d like to talk to you a little bit about that.
CD: Yeah, I’d like to think of it more as a stunt than a venture, but…

ML: Okay.
CD: I don’t know what I’m going to call it, a project. So, with a little help, the idea is to kind of explore how you can take information, which has no inherent cost or weight, and create a bunch of services around it that have prices that range from zero to infinity, depending on what people are willing to part with, and so at the zero level, there’s the free electronic text and a free audiobook. You’re actually going to be recording some of the audiobook for me, as I understand?

ML: Definitely, and I’m excited.
CD: And then there’s donation, so donation for the audio, donation for the text, that’s kind of a pay-as-you-like. And then there’s a POD, print on demand, physical paperback, from Lulu, who you’re very familiar with, obviously, you used to work there. And because it’s POD, there are five covers, because you can, and it’s POD I’m also trying a bunch of other stuff that you can do that you can’t do with traditional print. I just can’t explain why no one’s done it before. One is that if you send me a typo, I’ll fix it in the next copy, that’s kind of a natural, but I’ll footnote you on the page. You’ll get a thanks on the page for you fixed the typo, and then I’m going to likewise, an appendix every month with all the finances for the book, and all the money, and the finances for the last short story collection, which came out from Thunder’s Mouth traditional publisher, and the idea is to start to get some facts on the ground, some apples and apples comparison. What is it a writer like me can do in situations and honestly, every writer is unique unto his or herself, but at least this gives you a sense of the range. And then there’s a premium edition, which is a hardcover that’s being hand-bound in lots of twenty, limited edition of 250 made in Incarcf and Wellmouth Cesar in London, and set into the cover is an SD card with the audio and the electronic book, and then every one of those has a unique endpaper I’ve solicited from writers who are friends of mine and whom I admire. They’re paper ephemera. And, you know, it’s been a really amazing gamut of things. I’ve got Kathy Koge’s third grade report card, I’ve got Jay Lake’s cancer diagnosis, and I’ve got Joe Haldeman’s watercolors."