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November 11, 2003 5:43 AM - comments (4)

I wrote at the end of last month about Mark Cooper's new book, Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age, which is available for free download under a Creative Commons license. It's also available from Amazon. Mark was slow to get me the link because he said he didn't want to "compete with free." But free complements nonfree, and if you like what you read, buy it from Amazon.

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November 11, 2003 9:19 PM Drew:

Since the entire book is already available to free, one wonders why there wouldn't be sample pages to view through Amazon. It also seems that he doesn't participate in the new search inside the book feature?

November 12, 2003 8:29 PM Joshua Ruihley:

I had a chance to see Mark speak at the Media Reform Conference up in Madison. Good stuff. The guy's so hell-bent on "free" that he even gave away a hard copy of the book to each registrant. It is nice to see someone so excited about their words that they are willing to give them away at no charge. Are we going to see CC out of your next piece, Larry?

November 18, 2003 12:20 AM Adam:

And it's good, too. Ok, at least the beginning is good. He really tears apart Chairman Powell's statements, although honestly that may not be that hard.

December 22, 2003 10:18 AM Author:

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