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Cory Doctorow Releases 'Eastern Standard Tribe'

Posted by timothy on from the free-pdf-to-first-reviewer dept.

OrenWolf writes "Cory Doctorow (of EFF and Boing Boing fame), has released his second novel, Eastern Standard Tribe today.. it should be showing up in bookstores shortly. As with his earlier work, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Cory has made the whole text of the novel available as a free download "in a variety of open, standards-defined formats, under the terms of a Creative Commons license." Cory also has a writeup "explaining why I've done it: in a nutshell, this worked really well for my first book, and I'd be crazy not to repeat the experiment with my second novel.""

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  1. hear that? by nil5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think I just heard Lawrence Lessig's battle cry: "Creative Commons? EAAAAAAAAARRRRGHHH"

  2. of Boing Boing fame? by Savatte · · Score: 1, Funny

    Let's just say I went to boingboing.net, and I consider that flagrant false advertising. Like that pottery store on the Simpsons called Stoner's Pot Palace.

  3. F$%# by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey !
    I was reading the book!
    Now the server's slashdotted!
    Damnit

  4. Cory Doctorow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is that a kind of cross between Coronation Street and Doctor Who

  5. Next time by savagedome · · Score: 2, Funny

    Take this novel and pass it from inbox to inbox, through your IM clients, over P2P networks

    I will suggest the next big worm writer to include it as a payload ;)

    *ducks*

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  6. Hey, can somebody re-post his write-up? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    My company's proxy server, in it's infinite wisdom, refuses to let me look at a site named "craphound". I wonder why?

  7. Re:PDF is open -- Error 42 by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 2, Funny
    Error 42: Missing Digit

    Error 42: Missing Question

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  8. Re:I want print books .... by lake2112 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Really I thought the only place that I could buy a book was amazon.com

  9. Um by HarveyBirdman · · Score: 2, Funny
    Maybe awards voters should take into consideration how much an author does to make his work freely available.

    I'd be happy if award voters anywhere in the media world took the quality of a work into consideration.

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  10. Re:News? by Eric+Sharkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is this all it requires to get /. to advertise a product? Release it under the Creative Commons?

    No, you also need to have sufficient wuffie.

  11. Learning from your mistakes by bfg9000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cory has made the whole text of the novel available as a free download "in a variety of open, standards-defined formats, under the terms of a Creative Commons license." Cory also has a writeup "explaining why I've done it: in a nutshell, this worked really well for my first book, and I'd be crazy not to repeat the experiment with my second novel.""

    Actually, Cory, you'd be crazy to think the Slashdot Effect would skip you this time over. We never did before...

    Basically, unless you write a book about "Ancient Roman Carpet Installation Techniques", we're gonna take you down. And even then, if you put it under the Creative Commons license.....

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  12. Re:TYPO in the cover by SpaceCadetTrav · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's just a blatant attempt to appeal to the Slashdot crowd.

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