Brian O’Leary is one of the few people willing to speak openly about ebooks, piracy and P2P file sharing in a book publishing context. His work with O’Reilly Media, Impact of P2P and Free Distribution on Book Sales, was years ahead of its time and will be remembered as an overlooked classic of the period.
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Rules for Canadian Writers: Updated for the Current Millennium!
Jill Murray created this salient piece sometime in the past 24 hours – likely inspired by the shitstorm that she stirred up by having the audacity to question that unassailable guardian of Canadian culture, Access Copyright.
Neil Gaiman on Copyright, Piracy and the Commercial Value of the Web
The biggest thing that the web is doing is allowing people to hear things, allowing people to read things, allowing people to see things that would never have otherwise seen and I think basically that’s an incredibly good thing.
Reclaiming Vancouver’s Literary Locations
In October, Project Bookmark Canada unveiled four bookmark locations in Ontario. These “bookmarks” are large markers with literary passages placed in the same location as the text. For example, there is now a Bookmark at the The Prince Edward Viaduct in Toronto, ON with a passage from In the Skin of a Lion by Michael [...]
Huck Finn & The “N” Word Debate: By The Numbers
I have a book in my collection I wish every American owned. It’s a joint publication from the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Productions, and the Institute of Language and Culture, and it’s called Remembering Slavery (1998). In it, surviving slaves told their stories during the 1930s, as the make-work “Federal Writers’ Project,” and those stories [...]
Words, Words, Words: Nigger vs Slave in Huckleberry Finn: Redux
My colleague Steffani Cameron wrote a brave piece yesterday on the story surrounding the forthcoming reprint of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. I won’t revisit the argument here but if you want to read a passionate defense of language and historical honesty then please go back and read her piece. [...]
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RIP Chris Reimer love u
Every time a book comes up in conversation, your dude friends will ask “Did you listen to that on audio book?,” and then they will laugh. Less dude-like people, people less invested in making fun of you, will just cock their heads to the side and ask you why you do it. As if liking books were not enough! As if it weren’t the best thing in the world to have someone read to you! As if you had something better to do!
n 1: Listening to Books (via hughmcguire)
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