What an odd-duck community we are: students and practitioners of the book crafts, devoted to a centuries-old technology and the arts that adorn and grow out of it, even as the twenty-first century’s information crackles through the very ether. New portals and modes of communication are burgeoning around us, and this Guild of Book Workers blog is one of them, offering us a new opportunity to increase our contact and conversation with each other, encouraging us to further exchanges of ideas.
Amid all this humming activity, what more bold communication experiment could we imagine than re-envisioning an actual print journal? A deliver-it-by-mail, pull-it-from-the-mailbox, hold-it-in-your-hands, turn-the-pages, good old-fashioned booklike sort of thing.