Tag Archives: Creative Commons

Here's a novel way to plug your book: 'Give away' the film rights

By Steve Weber | Published: March 13, 2007

Usually, novelists get paid something when they sell their film rights, then the project can end up in limbo for years. But Author Jonathan Lethem has a better idea. Lehman is offering to “give away” the option for his new novel “You Don’t Love Me Yet” — but only if the filmmaker coughs up 2 [...]

Seth Godin wants publisher to stop selling his Creative Commons-licensed book

By Steve Weber | Published: February 21, 2007

There’s an interesting dust-up between marketing guru Seth Godin and an entrepreneur who is selling paperback copies of an e-book Godin published on the Web two years ago using a Creative Commons license. On his blog, Godin is asking people not to buy the book. Apparently, sales of the book are so strong that Amazon [...]

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Now that's really plugging your book!

By Steve Weber | Published: December 22, 2006

Tech pundit Lawrence Lessig not only offers free downloads of his books, he makes sure the downloads are really fast. His new one, Codev2, is stored on an Amazon EC2 server, ensuring that just about any bandwidth requirement can be met. Codev2 was written in part through a collaborative wiki, available here. The text was [...]

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