Comments on: Sacred boundaries http://snarkmarket.com/2010/5361 The stomping grounds of Tim Carmody, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. It's a long-running conversation about media, journalism, technology, cities, culture, design, books, music, movies, the future and the past. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: The book as social contract « Snarkmarket http://snarkmarket.com/2010/5361/comment-page-1#comment-9290 The book as social contract « Snarkmarket Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:34:49 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=5361#comment-9290 [...] Cohen writes a nice post on the same theme I wrote about a few days ago — roughly, what is a book, and why do cer­tain com­mu­ni­ties hold it sacred?: When Roy Rosen­zweig and I fin­ished writ­ing a full draft of our book Dig­i­tal His­tory, [...] […] Cohen writes a nice post on the same theme I wrote about a few days ago — roughly, what is a book, and why do cer­tain com­mu­ni­ties hold it sacred?: When Roy Rosen­zweig and I fin­ished writ­ing a full draft of our book Dig­i­tal His­tory, […]

]]> By: philwells http://snarkmarket.com/2010/5361/comment-page-1#comment-9268 philwells Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:09:29 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=5361#comment-9268 I was going to say longform fiction is a good justification for putting out a whole big book, but now it occurs to me that fiction, and really anything, can be serialized. It feels like you're looking for an indivisible work to justify publication in book form. Like an epic poem or a submarine's technical manual. I was going to say longform fiction is a good justification for putting out a whole big book, but now it occurs to me that fiction, and really anything, can be serialized.

It feels like you’re looking for an indivisible work to justify publication in book form. Like an epic poem or a submarine’s technical manual.

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