André Klein Dot Net

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• “Luckily, my wife earns enough”
  Yesterday, I stumbled over an interesting recording from the re:publica 2012 about the changing face of publishing titled: “What happens when authors circumvent publishing houses”. Especially noteworthy I found Leander Wattig‘s introductory talk whose core facts I’d like to summarize … Continue reading → […]
• Why There Isn’t Any Competition In Self-Publishing
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• Botanicula: The Return Of Creative Adventure Games
  I grew up with adventure games. Without characters like Zak McKracken, Guybrush Threepwood, Roger Wilco or Dr. Fred, my childhood is hard to imagine. Not only did these characters teach me the first meaningful sentences of English outside of an education … Continue reading → […]
• Why The “Descriptive Camera” Gives Me The Creeps
  Everyone seems to be talking about the descriptive camera at the moment. If you haven’t heard about it yet, click the link. Basically, it’s a camera connected to a printer. Only, the printer doesn’t output an image but a description of … Continue reading → […]
• How Ebooks & The Net Bring Us Back To The Middle Ages
  Recently, I’ve been reading the Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, that (in)famous work of Marshall McLuhan, and it struck me that many of his insights relating to print media and reading culture can be applied to what is … Continue reading → […]
• “Diamond Scrapmining”
  copic on cardboard,2012, AK […]
• The Bermuda Triangle Of Social Network Data Sinks
  As much as I love the Internetz there’s something that really irks me, and no, I don’t mean the time-wasting (isn’t that its true purpose?) but something else entirely. “When you’re not paying for it you’re the product.” Companies like … Continue reading → […]
• “Noon is neither before or after noon; it is simply noon.”
  At the moment I’m preparing the launch of my first picture book for children. I’m planning to kick it off with a free promo through Amazon. I’ve done it a few times before with other publications, and I like to … Continue reading → […]
• Ramasser Les Feuilles à la Pelle
  For some reason only yesterday, after almost a decade of work on this domain, I had the idea to install WordPress here. The motive: to collect all the things that I’ve done over the years in some organizable (uncluttered?) way … Continue reading → […]