Re: DOWN & OUT IN THE MAGIC KINGDOM

From: Hal Finney (hal@finney.org)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 11:54:43 MST

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    This book is available for free(!) download from
    http://www.craphound.com/down/download.php. I haven't been able to get
    into it well enough to get past the first few chapters, but it seemed
    readable enough and moved along well. I'll try to get back to it when
    I have a chance. For me, there's quite a difference between a physical
    book which you have sitting around to remind you to read it and an
    electronic book which is buried in a directory somewhere on your disk.

    The author, Cory Doctorow, got considerable publicity for making the book
    available in this way, in addition to having it for sale in the stores.
    Some people predicted that this is the wave of the future, that the
    sales of the physical book would actually be increased by having the
    book available for free online. It will be interesting to see how this
    book does, as a test case.

    Hal



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