11.20.07
Interesting technology: Longpen
Very interesting: long-distance book signings. And the inventor? Margaret Atwood, of all people. Full info here.
UPDATE: The Wife thinks this innovation totally misses the point, which is to meet the author, bask in the aura briefly, say, “Could you please sign it ‘to Mandy’?” and the like. The innovation here could have been done much more simply by shipping to the signing a mask of the author’s face and a rubber stamp of the signature…
