"Cory Doctorow - Eastern Standard Tribe" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dodd Christina)

the book is changing. I think that literature is alive and well:
others; and even though the print-run (which sold out very
we’re reading our brains out! I just think that the complex
quickly!) though generous by science fiction standards, hardly
social practice of “book”—of which a bunch of paper pages
qualifies it as a work of mass entertainment.
between two covers is the mere expression—is transforming
and will transform further.
The thing that’s extraordinary about that first novel is that it
was released under terms governed by a Creative Commons
I intend on figuring out what it’s transforming into. I intend on
[http://creativecommons.org ] license that allowed my readers
figuring out the way that some writers—that this writer, right
to copy the book freely and distribute it far and wide. Hundreds
here, wearing my underwear—is going to get rich and famous
of thousands of copies of the book were made and distributed
from his craft. I intend on figuring out how this writer’s words
this way. Hundreds of thousands.
can become part of the social discourse, can be relevant in the
way that literature at its best can be.
Today, I release my second novel, and my third
[http://www.argosymag.com/NextIssue.html], a collaboration
I don’t know what the future of book looks like. To figure it
with Charlie Stross is due any day, and two
out, I’m doing some pretty basic science. I’m peering into this
[http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/show.html?fn.preview_do
opaque, inscrutable system of publishing as it sits in the year
ctorow] more
2004, and I’m making a perturbation. I’m stirring the pot to see
[http://www.craphound.com/usrbingodexcerpt.txt] are under
what surfaces, so that I can see if the system reveals itself to
contract. My career as a novelist is now well underway—in
me any more thoroughly as it roils. Once that happens, maybe
other words, I am firmly afoot on a long road that stretches into
I’ll be able to formulate an hypothesis and try an experiment or
the future: my future, science fiction’s future, publishing’s
two and maybe—just maybe—I’ll get to the bottom of book-
future and the future of the world. The future is my business,
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in-2004 and beat the competition to making it work, and maybe collections of bits. These tools demand that their users copy
and slice and dice—rip, mix and burn!—and that’s what I’m
I’ll go home with all (or most) of the marbles.
hoping you will do with this.
It’s a long shot, but I’m a pretty sharp guy, and I know as much
about this stuff as anyone out there. More to the point, trying Not (just) because I’m a swell guy, a big-hearted slob. Not
stuff and doing research yields a non-zero chance of success. because Tor is run by addlepated dot-com refugees who have