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Troll Thread_demo_book_for_intern.pdf

Yearous-Algozin

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Troll Thread co-founder Joey Yearous-Algozin created *DEMO BOOK FOR INTERN* in 2015 to show Troll Thread’s intern how to make a print-on-demand book. It also demonstrates the collective’s general poetic approach to working with found material from the internet by including the text “IBM System 360 RPG Debugging Template and Keypunch Card” as found freely accessible on Project Gutenberg. 

This text was copied to a US letter format template and auto-formatted, as were the disclaimer and meta-text, including all source formatting. The resulting twenty-four pages were then copied twenty-eight times to come as close as possible to the maximum number of pages for this format on Lulu. The book contains obscure line breaks, deformed links, and cut-off images, revealing the fundamental differences between web and print text design. It also shows that text on Project Gutenberg is not truly free, as more than half of the copied text is taken up by a copyright disclaimer. 

The book must have served its purpose, since the intern then went on to make a print-on-demand publication for Troll Thread called *[INTERN](https://apod.li/intern)*.

open edition

multiple editions

21.6 x 27.9 cm

experimental literature

artist’s book / bookwork

unpaginated

paperback

color

perfect bound

test / experiment

reformatting

found material

Lulu

Troll Thread

standard / default

economy / labor

analog / digital

publishing / distribution

print on demand

book / book design

copyright / law

DEMO BOOK FOR INTERN

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Website of Collective Task

Sterling

Faylor

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Andy Sterling’s *7% dinner 4 lifetime* is a selection of his writing and work from 2010 and 2011—edited and published by J. Gordon Faylor, the founder of Gauss PDF, without letting Sterling know.

The publication stems from a challenge by the artist group Collective Task. On the first day of each month, a member of the collective sets a task for the other members to complete during the month. The task in the case of *7% dinner 4 lifetime *was “Tribute,” whereupon Faylor submitted the edited volume as a surprise gift for Andy Sterling.

He took the texts from email conversations on Gmail, where Sterling, according to Faylor’s “Foreword,” has been busy filling conversations with creative writing, appropriation, and the copying and pasting of text. These texts, which were meant for only a few participants, are treated by Faylor as literary works. Thus, *7% dinner 4 lifetime* is not only a manifestation of Sterling’s virtuous poetry but also a change of publication context, revealing the editor’s rather prominent role in the creation and publication of (experimental) literature.