On October 24, I gave a talk at the 4th Books in Browsers conference, San Francisco, about the mysterious phenomena of spam-as-books that has been infiltrating distribution platforms and university libraries worldwide. You can also read my recent paper on this topic (in French).
Some comments from the twitterati:
@bib13 "A #Book Isn't a Book Isn't a Book" with @16kbit of Geneva, @GrayscalePress: Two of the major disruptions we face: #ebooks & #POD.
— Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson) October 24, 2013
#bib13 "A #Book Isn't a Book Isn't a Book" with @16kbit: "When a book as the wrong image for the cover, you know something is wrong."
— Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson) October 24, 2013
#bib13 "A #Book Isn't a Book Isn't a Book" with @16kbit is surveying #algorithmic spam and #human-made spam in self-published books.
— Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson) October 24, 2013
@16kbit is very entertaining on #spambooks at #bib13
— Ardal Powell (@drardal) October 24, 2013
.@16kbit is presenting the inventive but also dark side of print-on-demand books at #bib13. #spambook @HEADGENEVE pic.twitter.com/zIzo9NRaXI
— Aurelie Coulon (@AurelieSF) October 24, 2013
It was an awesome experience.
During that week, I visited the Internet Archive, took many photos, slept at a wonderful AirBnb, took tons of live conference notes, realized that James Bridle and Jason Scott are real, had a good time hanging out with Astrom/Zimmer, Melanie Picard and Aurélie Coulon from Swissnex, learned a lot about EPUB while testing epub.js, trespassed the gates of the Noisebridge hackerspace, had a conspirative meeting with fellow nato.0+55 veteran META…
My presence at this conference was facilitated by Swissnex San Francisco and the Media Design master program at HEAD Geneva – thanks for having me!