Another well-done screed in favor of giving books away online as a way of increasing readership and selling more printed copies by Cory Doctorow appears in Locus Magazine. While he focuses on sci-fi, it’s an argument that can easily be applied to other genres, such as the current cottage industry of Rational-Lit.
Paging Richard Dawkins: If The God Delusion is so damned important for society than you really should consider posting an electronic version on your website with a Creative Commons license. If the goal is reaching people, than it might offer a little more to your site than geeky “scarlet letter” T-shirts and attempts to get people to flyer for your book. It’s cheap, man. Just cheap.
Five NonFic books too important to be kept bound to the paper realm yet which I am linking to:
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Daniel added these pithy words on Oct 05 07 at 8:40 pmI couldn’t understand some parts of this article » Free(konomic) E-books, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.
yours truly added these pithy words on Oct 10 07 at 12:41 pmHey Daniel,
I’d suggest you check out the introduction to Cory’s latest novel, “Someone Comes to Town, Someone leaves Town.” It offers a really decent summery of the same ideas, and it’s all downloadable.
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