Buy this Book (Irony included free of charge).
Some scholars write contributions, some adjust the record, some revise it. And some scholars write definitive (and effing long) works. Adrian Johns is one of those scholars. I don’t get as excited about academic books these days as I once did when I spent a lot of time loitering in bookstores (not unrelated issue), but I’m so incredibly excited to have this book in the world I just can’t resist getting all swoony about it. You should too.
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Here’s some more irony for you: Go to “this page”:http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ebooks/free_ebook.html on Monday February 1 and you can get a _Piracy_ for free in e-book format. Yeah, only on February 1. (But for the rest of the month of February you can get another book by Johns, _The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making_ for free in e-book format.) This is the URL: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ebooks/free_ebook.html
Here’s some more irony for you: Go to “this page”:http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ebooks/free_ebook.html on Monday February 1 and you can download a free copy of _Piracy_ in e-book format. Almost like stealing. But, yeah, only on February 1. (But for the rest of the month of February you can get another Adrian Johns book, _The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making_ as an e-book.) This is the URL: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ebooks/free_ebook.html
Is that a ship from Sid Meier’s 1987 game Pirates! (possibly the best game ever made) sailing on that progress bar?