Verso e-book sale today
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butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Now read them.
Tempted by Mei Zhi's one on her husband's incarceration but can't be arsed.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
I've started the Revelli, it's great.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
I got the Tronti and Reveilli ones
I know we've tried reading groups on U75 before and they've kind of died without much success but maybe we should try to give it another go. Especially as quite a few of us are reading/have read stuff on (national) populism recently?
gawkrodger
Well-Known Member
i just can't deal with reading e-books. Fine for hunting for quotations but prefer a physical book 1000 times over. No problem with reading journal articles etc in electronic format but then I am a bit weird
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Depends.
Ebooks, for me, are best for "cover to cover" reading but I need physical for dipping in.snd out references.
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
I bought a loaf of ebooks and am now reading a book.
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
I just became iPad wanker at the age of 50 so will give the ebooks thing a try.
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
(Yes I bought the Bastani for the lols, I’m not a complete cunt. Yet.)
I really love the idea of a loaf of books.
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
I'd only bought it last week in hardback ffs. The cover isn't a good ad for high tech communism, the back cover is fucking unreadable, tiny print all overlaying a graphic in badly chosen colours. Sack the fucking designer.
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
Could be deep entryism from the PD design cadre...
seventh bullet
sovietwave
Excellent book, the physical one in your lap.
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
Yeah I found it cheap and remembered someone on here (possibly you!) recommended it. It is absolutely cracking.
Same here. Wish I could. But I never respond the same way to ebooks as I do to having a real book in my hands. Not that I read as much as I used to.
Lurdan
old wave
Verso is giving away ebooks during it's September Student List 50% off sale. Currently it's Marable's Beyond Black and White.
There was an email about the first freebie earlier in the week but I think the only certain way to find out about subsequent ones may be to keep an eye on their blog :
Verso
There was an email about the first freebie earlier in the week but I think the only certain way to find out about subsequent ones may be to keep an eye on their blog :
Verso
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
I hate this thread, cos any time I see it has been updated it reminds me that I bought 7 or 8 Verso e-books about four years ago and I have still not read one of them. This thread is a total shaming exercise.
Mordi
Amoral adventurist
I know I'm not the only one on this thread to have got as far as checking out on the verso site only to be told that some of the books I'm trying to buy I got last time round and just haven't read yet. Embarrassing.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
This savage review (or here if maxxed out) of (for hire) red-brownassadist scummmer'sbook in the TLS last week asks some serious questions about that arm of verso's publishing - maybe they ned to break off and form a verso-recto publishers?
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Publishers, especially those with illustrious histories, have a responsibility for what they put their stamp on, and with this book Verso has torn a hole in its reputation. The overarching argument shoehorns history into unrecognizable shapes; the fact-checking has clearly not been as it should; even the copy-editing seems to have been skimped on, judging by the number of typos. But even more worrying than these basic failures in publishing a meaty, non-fiction book is the apparent lack of concern about the controversy surrounding the author himself. As the NYRB Daily noted last year (October 16, 2018), Blumenthal’s views on Syria “completely flipped” in 2015. Having previously been critical of Assad’s Russia-sponsored regime, he seemed to have performed a volte-face. Blumenthal now regularly retweets pro-Kremlin sources. Targets of his Twitter comments include an eight-year-old girl (Bana Alabed) living in rebel-held Aleppo, who ran an account of the siege with her mother. According to Blumenthal: “Alabed & the White Helmets [were building] on a grand tradition of pro-war psy-ops” in their first-hand reports.
A comprehensive list of rebuttals to an earlier article of Blumenthal’s with similar views was collected at the blog Hummus for Thought (October 5, 2016). It began with an impassioned plea from the Syrian Marcell Shehwara for readers to start listening to Syrians themselves, rather than dismissing them as stooges, as Blumenthal does. There are many similar take-downs of Blumenthal’s work online. It doesn’t take much digging to realize how many people question the author’s work.
Verso’s choice to continue to publish Max Blumenthal (see also the Verso-published The 51 Day War: Resistance and ruin in Gaza, 2015) therefore seems perverse, casting doubt on the entire stable of authors in this field. There are also the moral implications of this book: there is the danger that such arguments can be used by others to legitimize violence against secular and humanitarian actors in a number of theatres of conflict, thus fuelling the conflicts themselves.
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Lurdan
old wave
For this weekend only Verso are giving away all of this months promotional freebies at once
Verso blog
(These are all titles which have "leaked out" on to the internet in one form or another so you can of course download them from places like libgen instead).
Verso blog
(These are all titles which have "leaked out" on to the internet in one form or another so you can of course download them from places like libgen instead).
I've found that I have 6 free books from 2016 that I've never downloaded nevermind read!
