My invention. Please note date and time stamp.

[nolawitch58]

At the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Words and Music conference the past few days, the consternation over the state of publishing was hashed and rehashed. A few people were unhappy with the eBook format and Kindles, etc. for various reasons. My thought was that how the hell do you get an author to sign your eBook? Then I thought of an ecrypted electronic sigil that cannot be copied with which an author can sign eBooks. The sigil can be applied via a USB device. This is my idea. If anyone sees this anywhere else, note that I thought of it first.

There were a lot of other great things about the conference, but I'm trying to get all the writing I accomplished transcribed from the paper pages on which it is written.

Comments

[ozanbaba.livejournal.com]

sorry but, e-signature is getting pretty common here. a lot of government body and public office is using it, now.

[lionsphil.livejournal.com]

You may as well equip the author at their signing table with a graphics tablet and let them prepend an extra page with the signature graphic/text of their ad-lib choosing to the eBook document. I'm not aware of the photocopier killing the physical ancestor of this process.

The increased level of indirection may make it frustrating, but its clear inferiority to a pen and slices of dead tree show that it is more futuristic and advanced.

[voxwoman.livejournal.com]

or how about his thumbprint, as that would be easier on the hands...

One would think that if someone were going to the trouble of attending a book signing, they would purchase a dead-tree version of the book, which would be signed, and get an e-book version, gratis.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Kindles own. If I cared, I'd just buy a dead tree version, because honestly an e-signature just seems silly. Isn't the point to have a physical thing anyway?