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" Welcome to the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #144 April 2, 2010 by Peter Suber Read this issue online http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/04-02-10.htm Contents o The winter coat factor: A small spring thought o A verb for the act providing open access o Correction o Roundup o Coming this month o Credits"

Doctorow's summary in his newsletter: "My latest Locus column, "Special Pleading," talks about the damned-if-you-do/ damned-if-you-don't nature of free ebook scepticism. When I started out giving away my print novels as free ebooks, critics charged that it only worked because I was so obscure that I needed the exposure. Now that I've had a book on the NYT bestseller list, a new gang of critics claim my strategy only works so well because I'm established and can afford to lose sales to free ebooks. The arguing tactic is called "special pleading," and it's a dirty rhetorical trick indeed!"

"Commoner Letters is a series of letters written by prominent members of the CC community and sent out during our annual fundraising campaign. These exceptional "commoners" write about their past and present projects that involve CC, what CC means to them, why they feel the commons is a vital public resource in our digital age, and where they think CC is headed in the future."