Cory's new book released
Cory Doctorow's second novel, Eastern Standard Tribe, has been released. The draft I saw was brilliant, and it was only a draft! The book is for sale in bookstores and online. And it is also available as a free download, under a Creative Commons license.
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I loved "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" and got my mom to buy it for me for Christmas. I think I'll do the reverse this time and buy the book before I read it.
Can't wait until Friday to go buy it. I haven't had time to check out the freebook version, but I don't care. I loved "Down and Out..." and I want to support what Cory's experiment is trying to prove: that we can move from an economic model of "I'm the publisher and here's what I'm offering you" to "Hey, I'm an artist/author and if you like this, do me a favor and buy it".
That economic model has been derided as patronage by those with a vested interest in controlling distribution and I think they're correct. The dirty little secret is that patronage by the masses, now possible because of the Internet, puts the power back into the hands of the customer. We don't have to be consumers anymore.
The good news is that publishers don't have to take a profit-hit; they can always embrace the Internet and use it to gauge customer interest and THEN release the gems on physical media, thus practically guaranteeing sales.
Way to be a visionary, Cory...dragging the rest of us kicking and screaming into this brave new digital world. :)
--Jason
If I remember Nadars book was published after the 1965 Corvair was out. The 1965 was a complete re-design that corrected everything he complained about. It was probably the best economy car GM ever built. It died after 1969. In 1973 when we needed economy cars it had been converted in to a mussel car. He did in the very thing that he claimed to want - a good handling econmy car.
Nadar is a fraud.
Harry