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Someone Comes to Town,
SomeoneLeavesTown

Cory Doctorow

[email protected]

Published by Tor Books

July 2005

ISBN: 0765312786

http://craphound.com/someone

Some Rights Reserved

About this book

This is my third novel, and as with my first,Down andOut in the Magic Kingdom and my second,Eastern
Standard Tribe , I am releasing it for free on the Internet the very same day that it ships to the stores. The
books are governed by Creative Commons licenses that permit their unlimited noncommercial
redistribution, which means that youтАЩre welcome to share them with anyone you think will want to see
them. In the words of Woody Guthrie:

тАЬThis song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and
anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we donтАЩt give
a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it.Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, thatтАЩs all we wanted to do.тАЭ

Why do I do this? There are three reasons:

Short Term

In the short term, IтАЩm generating more sales of my printed books. Sure, giving away ebooks displaces
the occasional sale, when a downloader reads the book and decides not to buy it. But itтАЩs far more
common for a reader to download the book, read some or all of it, and decide to buy the print edition.
Like I said in my essay,Ebooks Neither ENor Books , digital and print editions are intensely
complimentary, so acquiring one increases your need for the other. IтАЩve given away more than half a
million digital copies of my award-winning first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, and that
sucker has blown throughfive print editions (yee-HAW!), so IтАЩm not worried that giving away books is
hurting my sales.

Long Term

Some day, though, paper books will all but go away. WeтАЩre already reading more words off of more
screens every day and fewer words off of fewer pages every day. You donтАЩt need to be a science fiction
writer to see the writing on the wall (or screen, as the case may be).

Now, if youтАЩve got a poor imagination, you might think that weтАЩll enter that era with special purpose
тАЬebook readersтАЭ that simulate the experience of carrying around тАЬrealтАЭ books, only digital. ThatтАЩs like