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[publishing] Giving It Away | Cory Doctorow - 0 views

www.forbes.com/...z_cd_books06_1201doctorow.html

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shared by anonymous on 02 Apr 09 - Cached
  • I've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money.
  • Most people who download the book don't end up buying it, but they wouldn’t have bought it in any event, so I haven’t lost any sales, I’ve just won an audience
  • The thing about an e-book is that it's a social object. It wants to be copied from friend to friend, beamed from a Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) device, pasted into a mailing list. It begs to be converted to witty signatures at the bottom of e-mails
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  • I've done this with three novels and a short story collection (and I'll be doing it with two more novels and another collection in the next year), and my books have consistently outperformed my publisher's expectations
  • perhaps the most social of all literary genres. Science fiction is driven by organized fandom, volunteers who put on hundreds of literary conventions in every corner of the globe, every weekend of the year.
  • As publisher Tim O'Reilly wrote in his seminal essay, Piracy is ProgressiveTaxation, "being well-enough known to be pirated [is] a crowning achievement." I'd rather stake my future on a literature that people care about enough to steal than devote my life to a form that has no home in the dominant medium of the century.
  • t's good business for me, too. This "market research" of giving away e-books sells printed books. What's more, having my books more widely read opens many other opportunities for me to earn a living from activities around my writing, such as the Fulbright Chair I got at USC this year,
  • anonymous on 02 Apr 09
     
    I've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money.
Eleonora Panto

Wikijunior - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks - 0 views

en.wikibooks.org/Wikijunior

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shared by Eleonora Panto on 03 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Eleonora Panto on 03 Apr 09
     
    The aim of this project is to produce age-appropriate non-fiction books for children from birth to age 12. These books are richly illustrated with photographs, diagrams, sketches, and original drawings. Wikijunior books are produced by a worldwide communi
Elena Lopez

Google Faces Antitrust Investigation for Agreement to Digitize Millions of Books Online - 0 views

www.democracynow.org/...st_investigation_for_agreement

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shared by Elena Lopez on 01 May 09 - Cached
  • Elena Lopez on 01 May 09
     
    Interesting points about who will own access to classics and out-of-print books (i.e., information) once they are digitized for the web... "We speak to Brewster Kahle, founder of the non-profit internet library Archive.org. He's among critics warning Google could end up with a monopoly of access to information and exclusive license to profit from millions of books."
Guillermo Movia

California open source digital textbook plan faces barriers - Ars Technica - 0 views

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shared by Guillermo Movia on 08 May 09 - Cached
  • Guillermo Movia on 08 May 09
     
    Open Maths books in California
Philipp Schmidt

Process Dynamics and Controls - Open.Michigan - Educational Resources - 0 views

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shared by Philipp Schmidt on 23 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Philipp Schmidt on 23 Apr 09
     
    Great model for running an open course in which students collaboratively write the text-book.
  • Philipp Schmidt on 23 Apr 09
     
    Interesting example of using student generation of content as a way to learn.
Bernard Sadaka

Open Education News - 0 views

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shared by Bernard Sadaka on 23 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Bernard Sadaka on 23 Apr 09
     
    Open Translation Tools 2009 will be held from 22 to 24 June, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The event will be followed by an Open Translation "Book Sprint" which will produce a first-of-its-kind volume on tools and best practices in the field of Open Translation. Both events are being co-organized in partnership with FLOSSManuals.net, and generously supported by the Open Society Institute.
Bernard Sadaka

QuickMark Mobile Barcode - Web Site QuickMark - 0 views

www.quickmark.com.tw

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shared by Bernard Sadaka on 07 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Bernard Sadaka on 07 Apr 09
     
    Would future supermarkets user quickmark? how about books at libraries?
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