[Nettime-bold] Alt-X to release Ebooks (fwd)

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:39:53 -0500
From: Kristine Feeks <kristine@altx.com>
To: sondheim@panix.com
Subject: Alt-X to release Ebooks

IMMEDIATE RELEASE


ALT-X ONLINE NETWORK, ON THE WEB SINCE 1993, LAUNCHES NEW ALT-X PRESS WITH
EIGHT ORIGINAL EBOOK AND PALM TITLES

BOULDER, Colorado, July 16, 2001 -- The Alt-X Online Network, "where the
digerati meet the literati," announces the release of eight original ebook
and Palm titles, featuring both well known and emerging international
artists and writers. The eight titles inaugurated here include previously
unpublished work by postmodern fiction masters George Chambers, Ron
Sukenick and Raymond Federman, screen-based auteur Nile Southern, new
media stars Mark Amerika, Eugene Thacker, Adrienne Eisen, and Alan
Sondheim, and a collection of Neuromantic Fiction from the Black Ice
magazine archives. As part of Alt-X's longstanding strategy of utilizing
the strengths of world wide web publishing, these ebook and Palm titles
will be available to readers for free without corporate advertising.

As one of the oldest surviving web sites devoted to producing and
distributing provocative works of digital narrative, Internet art and
avant-pop fiction, Alt-X is now initiating a cluster of new media projects
including free ebook/Palm titles, mp3 compilations, Internet art
exhibitions, streaming audio installations, and an upcoming redesign of
the entire site, including its popular ebr journal, an international forum
on new media art, writing and criticism.

"In a time of economic downturn and dot.com uncertainty, Alt-X perseveres
and continues its mission to expand the concept of writing," said Alt-X
President and Publisher, Mark Amerika. "And as digital writing makes its
footprint into the electrosphere, we no longer ask 'What is literature?'
but, more importantly, 'What is literature's exit strategy?'"

The books are available for free download at www.altx.com/ebooks and many
of these new publications will be available as Print On-Demand (POD) titles
this Fall.

For information on the Alt-X Network, Alt-X Press, or any of the artists,
send email to Kristine Feeks at Kristine@altx.com



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