"Cory Doctorow - Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dodd Christina)

Why am I doing this thing? Well, it's a long story, but to shorten it up: first-time novelists have a tough
row to hoe. Our publishers don't have a lot of promotional budget to throw at unknown factors like us.
Mostly, we rise and fall based on word-of-mouth. I'm not bad at word-of-mouth. I have a blog, Boing
Boing (http://boingboing.net), where I do a *lot* of word-of-mouthing. I compulsively tell friends and
strangers about things that I like.



And telling people about stuff I like is *way*, *way* easier if I can just send it to 'em. Way easier.



What's more, P2P nets kick all kinds of ass. Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not
available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc
masses of the Internet have managed to put just about *everything* online. What's more, they've done it
for cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever. I'm a stone infovore and this kinda Internet
mishegas gives me a serious frisson of futurosity.



Yeah, there are legal problems. Yeah, it's hard to figure out how people are gonna make money doing it.
Yeah, there is a lot of social upheaval and a serious threat to innovation, freedom, business, and whatnot.
It's your basic end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it scenario, and as a science fiction writer,
end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it scenaria are my stock-in-trade.



I'm especially grateful to my publisher, Tor Books (http://www.tor.com) and my editor, Patrick Nielsen
Hayden (http://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite) for being hep enough to let me try out this experiment.



All that said, here's the deal: I'm releasing this book under a license developed by the Creative
Commons project (http://creativecommons.org/). This is a project that lets people like me roll our own
license agreements for the distribution of our creative work under terms similar to those employed by the
Free/Open Source Software movement. It's a great project, and I'm proud to be a part of it.



Here's a summary of the license:
 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0



Attribution. The licensor permits others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work. In
return, licensees must give the original author credit.