{"id":5939,"date":"2012-07-14T08:50:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T07:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2012-09-03T12:04:54","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T11:04:54","slug":"introducing-the-periodical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/introducing-the-periodical\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing… the Periodical"},"content":{"rendered":"

An eccentric monthly publication for an era of eclectic exploration<\/em><\/p>\n

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More and more beautiful, thought-provoking and inspiring eBooks are being created with bookleteer all the time so, with a nod to such illustrious forebears as William Hogarth, Joseph Addison, Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne and Charles Dickens we’re creating the Periodical<\/em>, a regular monthly publication to share some of the best examples \u2013 from the most beautifully designed, illustrated and written to the most experimental uses of bookleteer, its API and what can be done with the format.
\nUpdate<\/strong> : check out the new bookleteer Library page<\/a> to browse what people have made.<\/p>\n

For a small monthly or one-off annual subscription (see below), you can receive by post a different printed eBook each month crowdsourced from bookleteer. Our target is to launch the Periodical<\/em> with at least 100 subscribers<\/strong> in October 2012<\/strong>, selecting and printing a new eBook each month for distribution. Whilst we build up the subscriptions we’ll be sending subscribers a choice eBook every month selected from among those we’ve previously printed for projects such as Professor Starling’s Expedition<\/a>, Material Conditions<\/a>, City As Material<\/a>, As It Comes<\/a>, Agencies of Engagement<\/a> and others. <\/p>\n

What Will Subscribers Receive?<\/strong>
\nThe Periodical<\/em> will be a monthly delight landing on your doorstep \u2013 you can expect consistent eccentricity and eclecticism in our choices. We will be seeking out the most extraordinary and unusual eBooks created and shared on bookleteer. Some will be selected by us at Proboscis, others will selected by invited curators and from time to time we’ll invite subscribers to vote for their favourite eBook to be printed and sent out as the monthly periodical. Anyone<\/strong> who wants to take part can contribute a book for consideration for the Periodical<\/em> by signing up<\/a> to bookleteer, then making and sharing an eBook. Each month we’ll post on the blog about what we’ve chosen and why \u2013 but only after we’ve sent it out, so the subscribers have the pleasure of an unexpected arrival landing on their doorstep.<\/p>\n

Over the past 18 years Proboscis<\/a> has built up a reputation for being eccentric and eclectic – for always choosing the oblique, less anticipated path. We have surprised and confounded people by building partnerships and collaborations that have taken us on a meandering journey of creativity, imagination and invention that spans a huge diversity of people, practices, places and situations. At any moment we might be found at the forefront of technology, citizen science or social media innovation (Urban Tapestries<\/a>, Feral Robots<\/a>, Snout<\/a>, Private Reveries, Public Spaces<\/a>); leading a landmark science-art collaboration (Mapping Perception<\/a>); inventing new hybrid digital\/physical publishing formats and platforms (Diffusion eBooks<\/a>, StoryCubes<\/a>, bookleteer<\/a>); co-designing social innovation with grassroots communities, government and industry (Conversation & Connections<\/a>, Pallion Ideas Exchange<\/a>, Perception Peterborough<\/a>, With Our Ears to the Ground<\/a>, Sutton Grapevine<\/a>); experimenting with new spaces, processes, materials and craft skills (Being In Common<\/a>, As It Comes<\/a>, Navigating History<\/a>); working with schools (Experiencing Democracy<\/a>, Everyday Archaeology<\/a>) or taking a leading role in cross disciplinary research with academia (Sensory Threads<\/a>, Agencies of Engagement<\/a>). It will be this spirit of adventure, curiosity and exploration that will guide our curatorial choices \u2013 much as it drove the editorial policy I pursued with COIL journal of the moving image<\/a> back in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

To kickstart the Periodical<\/em> we’re inviting a number of our friends, colleagues, fellow travellers and others whom we admire to explore using bookleteer themselves and to create some new publications with it that will seed the initial pool of publications from which we choose the first few issues. We’ll announce more about these soon.<\/p>\n

Commissioned Series<\/strong>
\nTo complement the crowdsourced eBooks, we are also seeking sponsors<\/strong> to help us commission new experimental and imaginative publications using bookleteer. These will be printed and distributed to subscribers as well as shared digitally on bookleteer for all. We’re looking for sponsors who see the opportunity that bookleteer and the Periodical<\/em> offer for commissioning exciting new experiments in publishing – sharing new ideas, new knowledge and experiences in multiple ways to people all over the world. They might be themed series in themselves (following on from our previous series such as Material Conditions<\/a>, City As Material<\/a>, Transformations<\/a>, Short Work<\/a>, Liquid Geography<\/a>, Species of Spaces<\/a>, Performance Notations<\/a>) or simply a one-off commission.
\n***<\/strong> Please contact me<\/a> for details of sponsorship opportunities.<\/p>\n

Subscribing to the Periodical<\/em><\/strong>
\nYou don’t need to use bookleteer or be signed up to subscribe and subscriptions from organisations and institutions are very welcome (email us<\/a> with a purchase order to subscribe). The Periodical<\/em> will be a great way to tap into the creativity generated with bookleteer, having some of its best creations delivered to your door.<\/p>\n

Subscribers will also receive a 10% discount<\/strong> on any Short Run printing<\/a> orders of their own (recouping their subscription by just ordering a minimum 25 copies each of 4 of their own eBooks).<\/p>\n

Subscription Rates<\/strong>
\nUK \u2013 \u00a33 monthly<\/a> or \u00a330 annual (Pay by Direct Debit<\/a>, Barclays Pingit<\/a> to 07711 069 569 or Email to Subscribe<\/a> by Credit Card\/Paypal etc)
\nEuropean Union – \u00a312\/\u20ac15 a quarter or \u00a340\/\u20ac50 annual (Email to Subscribe<\/a> by Credit Card\/Paypal etc)
\nRest of World – \u00a315\/US$24 a quarter or \u00a350\/US$80 annual (Email to Subscribe<\/a> by Credit Card\/Paypal etc)<\/p>\n

Subscribe today to receive your first eBook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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