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