oddtag's posterous http://oddtag.posterous.com Most recent posts at oddtag's posterous posterous.com Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:45:12 -0800 Little smarty Brother http://oddtag.posterous.com/little-smarty-brother http://oddtag.posterous.com/little-smarty-brother [txt] Cory Doctorow - What’s "Little Brother" book about?
Giving away ebooks gives me artistic, moral and commercial satisfaction. The commercial question is the one that comes up most often: how can you give away free ebooks and still make money? For me — for pretty much every writer — the big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity (thanks to Tim O’Reilly for this great aphorism). Of all the people who failed to buy this book today, the majority did so because they never heard of it, not because someone gave them a free copy. Mega-hit best-sellers in science fiction sell half a million copies — in a world where 175,000 attend the San Diego Comic Con alone, you’ve got to figure that most of the people who “like science fiction” (and related geeky stuff like comics, games, Linux, and so on) just don’t really buy books. I’m more interested in getting more of that wider audience into the tent than making sure that everyone who’s in the tent bought a ticket to be there.
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Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:39:30 -0700 Yes We Can Share Culture http://oddtag.posterous.com/yes-we-can-share-culture http://oddtag.posterous.com/yes-we-can-share-culture via Creative Commons: A Shared Culture - laughingsquid.com [via] A Shared Culture - joi.ito.com txt Creative Commons: A Shared Culture - Laughing Squid
A Shared Culture is a new video that helps explain the idea behind Creative Commons. It was created by by Jesse Dylan, the director who made the extremely popular "Yes We Can" video for Barack Obama.
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