[aha] The Fluxus Reader - free download

[T_Bazz]

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