Book-a starts off with six titles rooted in the work done by six different authors in relation to these subject matters: architecture, art, photography, city, history, theory and criticism.
Designed as seed projects, each title contains the seed for a publishing proposal needed to initiate a thematic collection in book-a. Each collection seeks support in different fields of knowledge and tools in order to offer an extra-disciplinary approach to architecture, which intertwines various subject matters.
Our first six book-a’s request collective support through the book-allow crowd-funding platform. The aim is for them to become books, books that initiate thematic collections and these collections, thanks to the collective impulse, will fill the shelves of the book-ateca, a club-library in the clouds for the use and enjoyment of its cultivators. However, there is still more: In the book-across section, users can fuse contents into new editions.
Research groups and independent editors are invited to join book-a with their own collection and shelf, contributing with publications that seek to be crowd-funded and become seed-content at book-a.
Why not to create from zero a library on the cloud with remixable contents? That's the goal of book-a. Please join and help us to push up this work: you will support a fabulous collaborative library that grows before your eyes!
Lo veo como un espacio necesario e imprescindible para colaborar en construir un nuevo tipo de publicaciones. En mi caso, es la primera iniciativa orientada a la arquitectura y los arquitectos que veo en nuestro entorno . Lástima que haya surgido en una coyuntura tan dificil.
No cabe duda que exigirá más esfuerzo por ello, pero espero que salga adelante. Llevo tiempo pensando en autoeditarme algunos libros de recopilación de textos que ya he publicado en algunos medios. Por ejemplo, en mi blog Islas y Territorio, En consecuencia, echo de menos aquí una colección orientada a aquellos como yo que quieran implementar iniciativas de edición crowdsorcing.
¡Ánimo! Intentaré ayudarles a difundir este proyecto que creo valioso.