{"id":811,"date":"2006-10-12T00:53:25","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T00:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=811"},"modified":"2006-10-12T00:53:25","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T00:53:25","slug":"preorder_gamer_theory_on_amazo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/12\/preorder_gamer_theory_on_amazo\/","title":{"rendered":"pre-order Gamer Theory on amazon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s coming. The official pub date is April 15, 2007 from Harvard University Press, and the Institute will be producing a new online edition in conjunction with the print release. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gamer-Theory-McKenzie-Wark\/dp\/0674025199\/sr=1-7\/qid=1160616104\/ref=sr_1_7\/104-8191191-2818358?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books\">Pre-order<\/a> now!<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gamer-Theory-McKenzie-Wark\/dp\/0674025199\/sr=1-7\/qid=1160616104\/ref=sr_1_7\/104-8191191-2818358?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"gamertheorycover.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/gamertheorycover.jpg\" width=\"314\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll notice Ken&#8217;s dropped the L33T for the print title. He explains in a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtimearts.net\/rt75\/tofts_wark.html\">interview<\/a> in RealTime:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the website version I put the title in L33T [leet or gaming speak], partly in tribute to the early MUDs, but also to have a unique search string to put in Google or Technorati to track who was talking about it and where. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Smart. Also in that piece, a nice description of what we did:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a critical engagement with the concepts of authorship, writing and intellectual property, GAM3R 7H30RY is a book written out of the social software fabric of blogs and wikis, Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia and CiteULike. In other words, it represents a new writing practice that actively decentralizes the text as an object and disseminates it as an ongoing multi-channel conversation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s coming. The official pub date is April 15, 2007 from Harvard University Press, and the Institute will be producing a new online edition in conjunction with the print release. Pre-order now! You&#8217;ll notice Ken&#8217;s dropped the L33T for the print title. He explains in a recent interview in RealTime: For the website version [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,192,720,725,1546],"tags":[2448],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-books","category-gam3r_7h30ry","category-games","category-publishing","tag-gam3r_7h30ry-publishing-amazon-books-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}