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"],"contents":["Debate and reading held on October 19th, 1985 at the Ottawa Public Library between Robin Mathews (Professor at Carleton University) and Frank Davey (Head of English Dept at York University in Toronto). The debate was moderated and recorded by George Young, sponsored by the Canadian Book Publishing Council, and organized by the Council for the Arts in Ottawa. The event consists of a reading by Robin Mathews, then a reading by Frank Davey, and then a debate."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Item #: 2014.002.013\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Digitization complete. Transcription complete.\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"For more information, see the article \\\"Computers to change book form?\\\" from Citizen Book editor, Burt Heward's column, \\\"Cover to Cover\\\" in The Ottawa Citizen, October 19, 1985. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/464365037/\\nTranscription of \\\"Computers to change book form?\\\": \\n\\\"Ottawa's fourth annual Festival of the Arts is getting its biggest boost ever from the book community, specially the debate today between literary critics Frank Davey of York University and Robin Mathews of Carleton University.\\nThe first of the five lively events under the WordWorks title, the debate between computer-advocate Davey and nationalist Mathews, promises fireworks. It was to begin at 1 p.m. today in the Ottawa Public Library auditorium, Metcalfe and Laurier.\\nAuthor Mathews operates a traditional small publishing operation, Steel Rail Press, while poet Davey is founder of Swift Current, a computer network for writers. Most appropriately for them, the topic is 'Whither the Book?'\\n'I have opposed the Mathews style of nationalism, Davey said earlier, 'because it assumes a single definition of Canadian culture. It seems to stem from a United Empire Loyalist tradition that may be valid in Ontario, but is not in the West.'\\nDavey said he prefers a Diefenbaker-style 'community of communities ... an accumulation of regional artistic cultures.'\\nMathews's traditional views reflect a central stream of Canadian literature and valid concerns--shared by Davey--about the nation's cultural survival. Steel Rail next month launches Ottawa poet Patrick White's long poem in honor of a Chilean leftist martyr, Homage to Victor Jara (paperback, $7.95). It includes translation into Spanish by Ottawa Cuban-Canadian Juan O'Neil.\\nDo books, as we know them, have a future?\\nDavey offers a radical view that publishers will lose their power to decide the number of copies, the type of paper and the cost of books as readers assume authority.\\n'With the computer,' said Davey, 'you can actually send the text of the book to a bookstore and have the printing done there and the reader could determine there all the things decided by the publisher.'\\nDavey said the bookstore printings to suit individuals could vary from cheap formats to some approaching medieval manuscripts in appeal and quality.\\nCanada Council partly funds Swift Current, 'an electronic literary magazine' in which each of 40 Canadian writers edits his or her own contribution to the large data bank (Vax-750 operated by York University).\\n'We offer every reader an option of deleting not only an individual work but an individual author from his or her own view of the data base,' said Davey. Writers participate free in return for their writing and editing work. The 40 subscribers, so far, pay $25 (individuals) or $100 (libraries and other institutions). For classroom study, subscribers can pay for printouts at three cents for 50 lines (about 60 cents for 20 pages)--'a nominal fee.'\\nSwift Current gives regions and individuals an  escape from 'centralizing forces,' and Canadian writers a seawall against the flood of U.S. culture.\\\"\\n\\n\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670549989883906,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:54.597Z","score":3.813027}]