The Contract
If you’re a Facebook status watcher and a friend of mine, you may have seen the recent update in which I announced that I have a contract. It’s an advance contract for Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, which will, if all goes according to plan, be released in commentable draft form here and at MediaCommons, revised, and then published simultaneously in electronic form by MediaCommons and in print by NYU Press.
It’s phenomenal news, of course, and enormously exciting. As a friend of mine pointed out to me, though, all good news in academia comes with more work attached, a pricetag of sorts. This one’s a bit daunting: the entire thing is due in just about a year.
I’ve got my work cut out for me, needless to say, but it promises to be an exciting year. More about the project here, of course, as the process becomes clearer…
26 August 2008 8.13 am
Hey, that’s great news! I’m looking forward to reading it–in draft and final form.
26 August 2008 8.20 am
[What Chuck said.]
26 August 2008 8.32 am
Congrats! I hope you have a good experience with NYU this time around.
26 August 2008 1.30 pm
yeah!
the field (whatever that may mean) needs a book like this, written like this, so badly. glad you’re willing to step up and write up.
good luck kathleen!
27 August 2008 5.03 pm
That’s wonderful news, Kathleen! We’ll buy you a drink to celebrate when you’re in College Park :-)
27 August 2008 5.57 pm
Congratulations!
3 September 2008 9.16 pm
Well I just found your blog (I’m a little slow with the whole blog thing), and I think it’s marvelous news, Kathleen. Congrats!