[Leica] Nathan's Book List

[imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)]

As Nathan clearly stated:
Authorship belongs to the creator of the content, not the publishing  
house.
Do prestigious publishers exist? Of course.
Have important, limited edition works been self published? Of course.
<http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2007/07/the-book-as-object-books-and- 
bytes/>

If you're going to critique a book, critique it on the basis of the  
content, quality of production, design, binding, etc.;
not on whether the publisher was "real" or "unreal."

For someone who puts so much store (and rightfully so) in "prints;"
I find it a contradiction that you belittle
the efforts of an author to bind and distribute their work.

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist

On May 10, 2009, at 2:50 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> Of course I have no problem with including any book on your book  
> list I just
> said your blurring the line calling people who do blurb books  
> "authors".
> I think it does not service to the real authors on your list.
> And doesn't really compliment the self publishing people either as  
> the whole
> thing becomes meaningless.