eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 11 2008 | free, books, Amazon.com, thepugetnews
Rafe Furst has published a way of reading entire books for free on Amazon. By searching for a set of keywords which progresses you through an entire book, you create a Covering Set. It sounds a bit heavy-weight to me...
Quoted: A set of keywords that lets you read an entire book for free on Amazon is a covering set (CS). If the number of keywords in a CS is less than or equal to that of all other CSs for the same book, then it is a Minimal Amazon Covering Set (MACS). There may be more than one MACS for any given book. (And yes, someone who is highly skilled at discovering these could be considered a “MACS book pro”).
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 18 2007 | manifesto, books, cluetrain, free, ebooks, film, Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, David Weinberger, thepugetnews
Read the entire Cluetrain Manifesto online for free! This is one I've been meaning to get to for a while and should be great as a weekend read.
It's apparently also soon to be a major motion picture. I am reading David Weinberger's new book, "Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder" and am enjoying that immensely.
Quoted: markets are conversations. talk is cheap. silence is fatal.
ShareViewed: 22 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 24 2007 | books, guy kawasaki, business, PDF, free
A link to the PDF of the first chapter of Guy Kawasaki's "Art of the Start." I've been hearing good things.
ShareViewed: 10 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 02 2007 | books, audio, free, thepugetnews
Free audio books by a volunteer reading community. They completed 70 books last month alone! I have no idea of the actual quality.
ShareViewed: 4 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 29 2007 | news, software, project management, ebook, business, thepugetnews, free, books
You can now read the entire "Getting Real" book from the folks at 37signals online for free. This is my favorite book on building webapps.
eric | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 12 2007 | books, music, free, piracy, DRM, copyright, Tim O'Reilly
The 7 lessons of distribution for authors:
Quoted: 1) Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
2) Piracy is progressive taxation.
3) Customers want to do the right thing, if they can.
4) Shoplifting is a bigger threat than piracy.
5) File sharing networks don't threaten book, music, or film publishing. They threaten existing publishers.
6) "Free" is eventually replaced by a higher-quality paid service.
7) There's more than one way to do it.ShareViewed: 4 Times- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 12 2007 | books, publishing, free, DRM, piracy, thepugetnews
A great essay on why piracy is not harming legitimate sales of books but DRM is...
Quoted: Electronic copyright infringement is something that can only become an "economic epidemic" under certain conditions. Any one of the following:
Quoted: 1) The products they want—electronic texts—are hard to find, and thus valuable.
Quoted: 2) The products they want are high-priced, so there's a fair amount of money to be saved by stealing them.
Quoted: 3) The legal products come with so many added-on nuisances that the illegal version is better to begin with.
Quoted: Those are the three conditions that will create widespread electronic copyright infringement, especially in combination. Why? Because they're the same three general conditions that create all large-scale smuggling enterprises.
ShareViewed: 3 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 17 2006 | Yochai Benkler, pdf, cc, free, books
This blog post has links to free Creative Commons editions of a new book by Yochai Benkler called "The Wealth of Networks." I've been perusing the pdf and it looks quite interesting.
Quoted: A weblog about pop culture
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