Title & Author:

Library of artistic print-on-demand : post-digital publishing in times of platform capitalism / edited by Annette Gilbert and Andreas Bülhoff.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Leipzig : Spector Books , 2025.

Description:

719 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Library of artistic print on demand / Annette Gilbert, Andreas Bülhoff -- Post-digital publishing in times of platform capitalism / Annette Gilbert, Andreas Bülhoff -- Photobook Is Did you mean: Photo Book Is / Paula Roush -- Blurb support request (#1371123): Faulty books in production / Rahel Zoller -- Technology & materiality. Print on demand: The balance of power between paper and pixel / Alessandro Ludovico -- In defense of poor media / Silvio Lorusso -- The touching charm of print / Alessandro Ludovico -- Print on demand: The radical potential of networked standardization / Silvio Lorusso -- Production process: Print on demand / Manon Bruet -- Making & practice. From my skull / Joachim Schmid -- Paleolithic cave paintings: ABC on the photobook / Artists' Books Cooperative -- Making Print Wikipedia / Michael Mandiberg -- Yes, today it's boring. But in 20 years! / Kathrin Passig -- A book conceived before breakfast and delivered before lunch / Zoë Sadokierski -- One hundred million million books: Generative AI and automated publishing / Karen Ann Donnachie, Andy Simionato -- Critique & investigation. The Googlitchy Lórschapelekin: German classics of the Nuttekaktersm / Dagmara Kraus -- Grifting the Amazon / Angie Waller -- returning to a kind of activity we are known for / Joey Yearous-Algozin -- Print-on-demand self-publishing after the rise of misinformation got us killed / Holly Melgard -- Genre & aesthetics. Performing publishing: Infrathin tales from the printed web / Paul Soulellis -- The post-digital photobook / Michael Hagner -- Against the [cozy] prettyprinters: A defense of crappy print / Marc van Elburg, Florian Cramer, Clara Balaguer -- Print on demand as strategy and genre: Auto-factography and post-digital writing / Hannes Bajohr -- Communities of print in the digital age / Sophie Seita -- Community & teaching. Half Letter Press and our reasons for running it / Temporary Services -- Publishing with friends: Exploring social networks to support photo publishing practices / Paula Roush, Ruth Brown -- Grey libraries: Publishing as pedagogy, an annotated bibliography / Danny Snelson -- Archives & access. A note on vernacular print-on-demand publishing and the conundrum of access / J. Gordon Faylor -- Conceptual publishing and library practice / Hartmut Abendschein.

Summary:

"Print-on-demand has revolutionized the world of books. As analog-digital hybrids, PoD books are the very embodiment of the post-digital age. Digital printing and low-threshold online platforms such as Blurb, Lulu, or Kindle Direct Publishing make it possible for virtually anyone to publish instantly and worldwide--without financial investment or risk. This opens up spaces beyond the traditional book market and leads to a democratization of production. At the same time, this new radius of action is fundamentally dependent on the rules and interests of the platforms themselves. Out of this tension, an entire subculture has emerged--one that tests the book once again for its possible contents, aesthetics, materialities, economies, and publics, while also critically reflecting and negotiating our digital present. The Library of Artistic Print on Demand maps this field of experimentation for the first time in its global spread, historical depth, and political relevance." -- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9783959056977 (paperback)
3959056974 (paperback)

Subject:

On-demand printing.
Art publishing.
Electronic publishing.
Artists' books 21st century.
Impression à la demande.
Art Édition.
Édition électronique.
Livres d'artistes 21e siècle.
electronic publishing.

Form/genre:

catalogs (documents)
Essays.
Catalogs.
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Gilbert, Annette, 1975- editor.
Bülhoff, Andreas, editor.

Post-digital publishing in times of platform capitalism

Holdings:

Location: Library main 322772
Call No.: 322772
Copy: 1
Status: Available