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Cory Doctorow: Still one step ahead

February 15, 2004 6:28 AM - comments (1)

Cory Doctorow has relicensed his book, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Last year he released it under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs -- license. In so doing, he proved conventional wisdom about "free distribution" wrong -- the book did exceptionally well. Now, without even waiting for the rest of the publishing world to catch up, he's taken the next great leap: the book is now available under one of the least restrictive licenses -- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. Already, cool versions are emerging. Here's a Speed Reading tool for both new books by Trevor Smith.

Posted on February 15, 2004 6:28 AM | | technorati

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February 15, 2004 8:14 PM Thien:

He also has the paper he wrote for O'Reilly's conference. Great read.
http://craphound.com/ebooksneitherenorbooks.txt

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