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

The alternatives—sitting pat, or worse, getting into a moral been sold some snake-oil about the e-book revolution. Because
panic about “piracy” and accusing the readers who are blazing you—the readers, the slicers, dicers and copiers—hold in your
new trail of “the moral equivalent of shoplifting”—have a zero collective action the secret of the future of publishing. Writers
are a dime a dozen. Everybody’s got a novel in her or him.
percent chance of success.
Readers are a precious commodity. You’ve got all the money
Most artists never “succeed” in the sense of attaining fame and and all the attention and you run the word-of-mouth network
that marks the difference between a little book, soon forgotten,
modest fortune. A career in the arts is a risky long-shot kind of
and a book that becomes a lasting piece of posterity for its
business. I’m doing what I can to sweeten my odds.
author, changing the world in some meaningful way.
So here we are, and here is novel number two, a book called
I’m unashamedly exploiting your imagination. Imagine me a
Eastern Standard Tribe, which you can walk into shops all over
the world and buy as a physical artifact new practice of book, readers. Take this novel and pass it from
inbox to inbox, through your IM clients, over P2P networks.
[http://craphound.com/est/buy.php ]—a very nice physical
Put it on webservers. Convert it to weird, obscure ebook
artifact, designed by Chesley-award-winning art director Irene
formats. Show me—and my colleagues, and my
Gallo and her designer Shelley Eshkar, published by Tor
Books, a huge, profit-making arm of an enormous, publisher—what the future of book looks like.
multinational publishing concern. Tor is watching what
happens to this book nearly as keenly as I am, because we’re I’ll keep on writing them if you keep on reading them. But as
cool and wonderful as writing is, it’s not half so cool as
all very interested in what the book is turning into.
inventing the future. Thanks for helping me do it.
To that end, here is the book as a non-physical artifact. A file.
A bunch of text, slithery bits that can cross the world in an Here’s a summary of the license:
instant, using the Internet, a tool designed to copy things very
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0
quickly from one place to another; and using personal
computers, tools designed to slice, dice and rearrange
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