{"id":15094,"date":"2015-08-09T13:22:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T10:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=15094"},"modified":"2015-08-09T13:22:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T10:22:36","slug":"getting-lovecrafts-letters-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2015\/08\/09\/getting-lovecrafts-letters-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Lovecraft&#8217;s Letters online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight hours to go, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/H-P-Lovecraft-Selected-Letters-I-V-Arkham-House-\/151768548163\">a set of used <em>Selected Letters<\/em><\/a> on eBay, and the seller is offering an affordable shipping rate to the UK. Currently unaffordable for me, sadly, but one day I&#8217;ll get a full set of the <em>Selected Letters<\/em> hardbacks on my Lovecraft shelf.  <\/p>\n<p>Although, by then, there may be a good searchable public digital edition of Lovecraft&#8217;s letters.  On that score I&#8217;d suggest that NecronomiCon 2015 seems a suitable venue for some serious pre-production discussion, and initial wallet-tugging for some seed funding. The digital <em>Collected Letters<\/em> don&#8217;t necessarily need to be released as a readily pirate-able DVD or USB stick.  The <em>Letters<\/em> might appear as a website that only serves up Google Books-like page-views, in response to search queries, and only allows copy-paste of one paragraph at a time.  An annual subscription fee could give access to such a site ($20 a year for individuals, $300 for libraries and institutions?), or it might be made free and the costs defrayed by ads or sponsors &mdash; in fact, a Kickstarter would probably fund it with $500,000 in a few hours if the campaign were to be fronted by Joshi, the HPLHS, leading scholars etc, and the amount was to be match-funded by an institution or foundation. Such an online format would, of course, have the great advantage of allowing a group of approved annotators to easily start work on annotating the letters in a coherent and moderated manner.  Plus it would not eat into sales of existing print books of the letters, and might actually stimulate such sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight hours to go, on a set of used Selected Letters on eBay, and the seller is offering an affordable &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2015\/08\/09\/getting-lovecrafts-letters-online\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-necronomicon-providence-2015","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}