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[Dec. 12th, 2015|09:52 pm] |
Adam Parfrey
One of my first jobs was to typeset and do layout for a small publishing company. They had a huge Compugraphic typesetting machine that spit out rolls of text on paper, which you later had to wax down on boards. You had to go to another facility that provided you halftones on paper to be able to use photographs in a book. The first book I published (with Amok Press) was a novel written Joseph Goebbels and translated into English. It surprisingly received a favorable review from the New York Times. Publishing at that time was a real operation which made you focus your time and energy and knowhow. I had no money but I got it done.
In '88 I used a software called JusText, which employed CompuGraphic typesetting numbers to format the text as if it was the old time big machine, for the initial Feral House releases. But you had to have an Apple Macintosh, which was three thousand dollars at that time, and a struggle for me to obtain. It was not easy but you find a way to do it.
The Amazon overlords make it super easy for anyone to put out anything at all, any ideas that are not of any particular interest. I think that some degree of hardship in any particular process focuses one's thoughts and intentions. But my goodness, FREEDOM means the ability not to think or consider, and to have the ability to swim in shit. |
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