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Subject: [aha] The Fluxus Reader - free download
From:    "T_Bazz" <t_bazz at ecn.org>
Date:    Fri, May 13, 2011 10:59 am
To:      "List on artistic activism and net culture" <aha at lists.ecn.org>
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Ciao,

ricevo questo da Ken Friedman e ve lo giro! Finalmente la rara edizione
del Fluxus Reader e' scaricabile liberamente dal web.

T_Bazz

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Dear Colleague,

The Fluxus Reader has been out of print for many years now. In the
run-up to 2012, I've been getting requests for copies -- I don't have
any, and I don't know anyone who does. It's clearly been a desirable
book for some time. Owen Smith told me that he was already seeing used
copies at $300 a few years back. Today, I did an Amazon search for used
copies, and I found prices running from $449 up to $2,500! (The
expensive copy seems to have a drawing in it, but even the "cheap"
copies cost too much.)

For a while, now I've wanted to make a free digital edition available,
but the small typeface has made it difficult to get a clean copy.
Rebecca Parker, manager of the Research Bank here at the Swinburne
University library has gone to an expert outside service to prepare,
digitize, and proof The Fluxus Reader. The digital copy is now available
for download at:

http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/42234

Download times are swift over the next, but the complete book runs 36MB.
To make it easy for those who only wish one chapter, Ms. Parker has also
prepared a single PDF for each chapter for use as stand-alone texts. To
preserve the coherence and continuity of the book, Rebecca set each
chapter up with the front matter for the entire book.

The book is an open access edition, configured for full search and
accessible for copy and paste for scholars or students who wish to quote
from the book. All details and pages are identical with the print
edition. The PDF files are set to print out on a full-page format for
easy reading.

In my contract with the publisher, I kept the copyright of the book as
editor. In making the digital edition of the Fluxus Reader available, I
do so granting full permission for use in any format or medium.

Please feel free to share this information, to distribute the URL, or to
copy the book. Any library that wishes to add the Fluxus Reader to its
digital resources collection is free to do so.

Best regards,

Ken

Professor Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | University Distinguished
Professor | Dean, Faculty of Design | Swinburne University of Technology
| Melbourne, Australia | Faculty www.swinburne.edu.au/design

Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life | University of Chicago Press
| http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?isbn=9780226033594






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