This week we’ve published the last two of four commissioned eBooks from our guests at the City As Material events : Tim Wight’s The 2nd book of Urizen and Simon Pope’s Skylines and Sightlines. These add to the other two already published by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, Deep City and Ben Eastop, River Gap. Haz and I [...]
Two new eBooks for City As Material
February 11th, 2011 No Comments
Tags: city as material · collaboration · inspiring uses · making · pitch in & publish
Report from the field: eBooks in Sudan
February 2nd, 2011 1 Comment
A report by Julie Anderson, British Museum In January, I returned from Sudan where my co-author Salah Mohamed and I distributed the eBook we produced last autumn. Frederik Lesage has previously written about the development of our eBook, which deals with the archaeological excavations conducted in Dangeil, Sudan, as a case study for eBook usage, [...]
Tags: eBooks · education · evaluation · feedback · inspiring uses · language · learning · ppod · print on demand · sharing
New pricing coming soon
January 26th, 2011 No Comments
We’re presently working on a simpler and more flexible ordering system for our Print & Publish On Demand (PPOD) service. The key changes are : the minimum total order for StoryCubes will be just 50 cubes (the minimum per cube design). We will print orders as soon as we have received enough for a print [...]
Tags: ppod · print on demand
New Year Discount!
January 21st, 2011 No Comments
Beat the January blues, make something beautiful to share with bookleteer! 10% off your first bookleteer PPOD order with this offer code : hnyjan2011 Valid until 4th February 2011 – one order per account. Sign up for an account here
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bookleteer API
January 13th, 2011 6 Comments
Just before Christmas we implemented a major new feature on bookleteer – an API (application programming interface) enabling eBooks and StoryCubes to be generated by users direct from their own web applications and stored in or downloaded from their bookleteer accounts. Realising Tangible Souvenirs This has been a long-cherished ambition for us – harking back [...]
Tags: API · bookleteering · experiments · tangible souvenirs · updates
Commission a local City As Material event
January 10th, 2011 1 Comment
Reflecting back on the 5 City As Material events of last Autumn, we’re really pleased both with the reception of the events themselves by participants and that of the resulting publications with friends and colleagues. Over the next few weeks we’ll be publishing the personal contributions of the guests (Tim Wright, Ben Eastop and Simon [...]
Tags: bookleteering · collaboration · making · pitch in & publish · workshop
The Amplified Author at Crouch End Unlibrary
November 24th, 2010 1 Comment
Yesterday I took part in if:book‘s Amplified Author event at the Crouch End Unlibrary, giving a series of short workshops about bookleteer and print on demand alongside Anna Lewis of Completely Novel. Anna and I introduced 4 groups of people (many local writers) to the opportunities and limitations of print on demand systems (including our [...]
Tags: ppod · print on demand · workshop
Christmas Printing Deadlines
November 13th, 2010 1 Comment
If you’re planning to print some eBooks or StoryCubes in time for Christmas, here are our last printing dates : eBooks UK orders : 6th December (3pm GMT) International orders : 1st December (3pm GMT) StoryCubes All orders : 1st December (3pm GMT) Some Christmas Ideas StoryCubes and eBooks can make great gifts – why [...]
Tags: ppod · print on demand
City As Material : River
November 4th, 2010 2 Comments
Last Friday we held our second Pitch In & Publish: City As Material event on the topic of River. We met at Hermitage Moorings in Wapping (where one of the participants is a founder member) and spent a short time introducing ourselves and our interests in the topic. Taking part were Anne Lydiat, Aleaxandra McGlynn, [...]
Tags: bookleteering · collaboration · pitch in & publish · river · sharing · walking
Recent Updates and Changes
October 31st, 2010 No Comments
bookleteer members will have noticed a few changes to the site in September and October as we’ve pushed through a series of updates, changes and fixes to the platform. Here’s a quick run down of the most important of these from a member’s perspective, since many more were ‘under the hood’. First Time eBook & [...]
Tags: inspiration · updates · user guide
Some Recent PPOD books
October 8th, 2010 1 Comment
September was a busy month here at Proboscis and on bookleteer: we sent seven books to be printed via the PPOD service as well as 10 different StoryCubes. The range of publications was very broad, from books about exhibitions and art projects to a book in Arabic about a major archaeological excavation in Sudan and [...]
Tags: bookleteering · eBooks · eNotebooks · examples · inspiring uses · ppod · print on demand · StoryCubes
scheduled maintenance and new features
September 29th, 2010 No Comments
bookleteer will be offline for a few hours today as we do some scheduled maintenance and introduce some new features (the new image and content PDF gallery plus some other small tweaks). We’ll post more info about the changes when the site’s back online later today. *** Update 18.30 : its taking us longer than [...]
Tags: updates
Diffusion – 10 years old
September 19th, 2010 No Comments
Ten years ago this month, in September 2000, Proboscis published the first series of Diffusion eBooks – Performance Notations – initiating the start of the journey that has brought us to bookleteer.com. It was the culmination of ideas and designs about the future of publishing that themselves began back in early 1999 and were informed [...]
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Crowdfunding bookleteer
September 14th, 2010 No Comments
As mentioned in a post I wrote a couple of weeks ago, we’re hard at work building the ‘beta’ version of bookleteer to make it simpler to use, more robust and developing new features to make it even more useful. However, this does come at a cost and we’re low on funds to pay for [...]
Tags: bookleteer · crowdfunding · design
ScrapBooks as Tangible Souvenirs
August 31st, 2010 No Comments
… And ways to document events and projects A few days ago we published a ScrapBook made at the Vintage Festival for a project Proboscis is participating in called Graffito – a collaborative iPhone/iPad app that lets people draw on a shared canvas. It was used in the Warehouse tent (which had a 1980s theme) [...]
Tags: drawing · eNotebooks · examples · experiments · inspiration · making
