Apr
8

Kudos to David Rothman!

Promotion

The Oscura Press laughed its collective ass off at David Rothman’s great blurb about us on a recent teleread.org post (http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/15/find-out-when-p-books-reach-the-kindle-via-the-mysteria-service). We loved being described as aggressively non-profit!

“The Mysteria service links up with your Amazon wish list and tells when paper books become available in the Kindle format. The owner is the aggressively nonprofit and proudly anarchistic Oscura Press. Mysteria also points to new MP3s or videos of titles you want.”

He further goes on to write: “Suggestion for Amazon competitors: Why not add a similar service? For that matter, I can imagine Amazon itself co-opting Mysteria. Buying it out, even? From the anarchists? You never know. One more reason to drop the DRM, Jeff? Just joking.”

Hmm … even anarchists can dream. Just because we’re anarchists doesn’t mean we dream of antique 1890s pipe-bombs, or of climbing plum trees in the Amazon parking lot and dropping fresh ripe plums onto the windshield of Jeff B’s car. (We’re not even sure the Amazon parking lot has plum trees, frankly.) But if Mysteria were to be bought out by Amazon we’d probably:

  • Use the money to make more copies of our books & mail them to people who have time to read them. Who reads books anymore? Three kinds of people: prisoners, people on subways, and people at beachside resorts. And all three are prisoners of a sort anyway.
  • Use the money to buy a compound in the Southwest. We’ll build dorms for interns & interested artists & others of the artistocratic class to come and paint murals, create enormous installation spaces which disorient people. Something like a cross between a funhouse and a therapy session.
  • Use the money to buy fresh plums to plant plum trees in the Amazon parking lot.

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