two books by Cory Doctorow online
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miriam_eSomeone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town
http://craphound.com/someone/download.php
and
Eastern Standard Tribe
http://craphound.com/est/download.php
This is neat. A lot of people seem to be doing this now. You can download for free and/or you can buy it. If you think he won't make money that way then think again. LiveJournal uses exactly the same business model. Welcome to the new, poor-friendly world where abundance is not a threat and value is intrinsic rather than artificially conferred by scarcity.
On this topic also, I've previously mentioned that you can download (and/or buy) Lawrence Lessig's book Free Culture
http://free-culture.org/freecontent/
It tells how all the big media organisations started out as pirates and how copyright has been turned upside down so that its use is now the reverse of its original intent.
http://craphound.com/someone/download.php
and
Eastern Standard Tribe
http://craphound.com/est/download.php
This is neat. A lot of people seem to be doing this now. You can download for free and/or you can buy it. If you think he won't make money that way then think again. LiveJournal uses exactly the same business model. Welcome to the new, poor-friendly world where abundance is not a threat and value is intrinsic rather than artificially conferred by scarcity.
On this topic also, I've previously mentioned that you can download (and/or buy) Lawrence Lessig's book Free Culture
http://free-culture.org/freecontent/
It tells how all the big media organisations started out as pirates and how copyright has been turned upside down so that its use is now the reverse of its original intent.
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Date: 2005-09-01 06:16 am (UTC)I'd Palmified a copy of "Eastern Standard Tribe" from that site (I think I read about it on BonigBoing, because Doctorow contribues there a lot), but I wasn't aware that "Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town" was up there too. I read a chapter of that a few months back...it was a "teaser" when the book was published.
Neat stuff. :)