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28 May 15
Vanessa Alander@actualham While not 100% open-open, check out Cory Doctorow's views on that: http://t.co/MpFh2RAZed #usnhshare
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27 May 15
Vanessa Alander@actualham While not 100% open-open, check out Cory Doctorow's views on that: http://t.co/MpFh2RAZed #usnhshare
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Felicia Owensfree ebooks help boost sales of printed books, also creates an audience for future novels
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The golden age of hundreds of writers who lived off of nothing but their royalties is bunkum. Throughout history, writers have relied on day jobs, teaching, grants, inheritances, translation, licensing and other varied sources to make ends meet. The Internet not only sells more books for me, it also gives me more opportunities to earn my keep through writing-related activities.
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There has never been a time when more people were reading more words by more authors. The Internet is a literary world of written words. What a fine thing that is for writers
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17 Dec 10
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04 Feb 10
david johnsonan old essay by cory doctrow on how giving his books away for free downloads works. still important reading
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13 Dec 09
Laurice Taitz"Most people aren't and will never be readers--but the people who are readers will be readers forever, and they are positively pervy for paper."
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18 Mar 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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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When my first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, was published by Tor Books in January 2003, I also put the entire electronic text of the novel on the Internet under a Creative Commons License that encouraged my readers to copy it far and wide. Within a day, there were 30,000 downloads from my site (and those downloaders were in turn free to make more copies).
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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. A tiny minority of downloaders treat the free e-book as a substitute for the printed book--those are the lost sales.
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09 Jan 09
jose muriloThe Internet not only sells more books for me, it also gives me more opportunities to earn my keep through writing-related activities. There has never been a time when more people were reading more words by more authors. The Internet is a literary world of written words. What a fine thing that is for writers.
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Leigh Newtonevidence to show that giving away books makes money. Children could write and give away their stories on the net.
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05 Dec 06
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Douglas KarrWhy free can be profitable
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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.
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dave sgonechinaI've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money.
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