illth.org » Publishing http://www.illth.org impedimentia Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:05:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 G+ All the President’s Facepalms Summary http://www.illth.org/2011/08/24/g-all-the-presidents-facepalms-summary/ http://www.illth.org/2011/08/24/g-all-the-presidents-facepalms-summary/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:05:09 +0000 LHP http://www.illth.org/?p=346

Warren G Harding: "You had better."

Over at G+ I’ve been collecting photographs of all the president’s facepalms. Yesterday’s discovery of a suitable candidate for Woodrow Wilson wrapped up all of the 20th and 21st Century presidents.

G+ doesn’t include robust text formatting or link listing tools, so here’s the roster, with links back to the relevant G+ post:

20th Century

  1. Theodore Roosevelt Note: Not a true Facepalm. Just TR being TR. Bonus TR #1. Bonus TR Caption Contest. Bonus TR Gallery.
  2. William Howard Taft
  3. Woodrow Wilson Note: Not a true Woodrow Wilson. Just a professional facsimile.
  4. Warren G. Harding Finger pointing Bonus.
  5. Calvin Coolidge Note: Not a true Facepalm. Just Old Cal in his Indian Chief get-up.
  6. Herbert Hoover
  7. Franklin D. Roosevelt Note: Not a true Facepalm. Just an old guy looking at a globe. A big globe.
  8. Harry S. Truman Note: Not a true Faceplam. Just Harry S and a bunch of Greek generals shaking hands over a globe.
  9. Dwight D. Eisenhower Helen Keller Bonus.
  10. John F. Kennedy
  11. Lyndon B. Johnson Bonus #1. Bonus #2.
  12. Richard M. Nixon
  13. Gerald R. Ford
  14. James Carter
  15. Ronald Reagan
  16. George H. W. Bush Note: Not a true Facepalm. Just evidence of the Crack Epidemic.
  17. William J. Clinton Note: Not a true Facepalm. Just Slick Willy giggling about something.

21st Century

  1. George W. Bush
  2. Barack Obama Note: The Facepalm that started them all!
]]> http://www.illth.org/2011/08/24/g-all-the-presidents-facepalms-summary/feed/ 0 Someday Print on Demand Will Work http://www.illth.org/2003/03/19/someday-print-on-demand-will-work/ http://www.illth.org/2003/03/19/someday-print-on-demand-will-work/#comments Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:38:52 +0000 LHP http://www.illth.org/wordpress/2003/03/19/someday-print-on-demand-will-work/ This morning while trolling for editorial clients, I fell into American Web Books. AWB is a subsidiary of Applewood Press, whose main business appears to be re-publishing historical works that are in the public domain. Ho hum. AWB takes this in a new direction and publishes public domain works based on the suggestions and requests of registered visitors to the site. So, if I suggest a new edition of Treasure Island, and AWB gets 100 orders for the book, they’ll print and ship them. They also offer book packagaing to organizations (‘PartnerPublishers’) looking to rescue out-of-print public domain works, and, of course, vanity publishing. Essentially, they’re trying to drive business to the Print on Demand service they run.
The ‘suggest and vote’ idea is interesting. Out of print titles with an audience too small to justify ‘real’ publication get a new life, and AWB doesn’t have to guess what people might buy before they design and print books. A great idea, but from the looks of things the idea is not even covering the cost of the website. Maybe not enough people are aware of the service, or maybe not that many people are interested in saving out of print books. Amazon might be able to do something with this…

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