Tag Archives: Cory Doctorow

Little Brother

By Matt Mitchell | Published: May 26, 2008
I just finished reading Little Brother, and like just about everyone else who’s read it, I loved it. There’s been a lot of commentary about this book, and I agree with most of what I’ve read (especially this one), so I won’t add to it here. I’ll just say that this is a book people [...]
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“The problem for artists isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity”

By Matt Mitchell | Published: April 9, 2008
From Cory Doctorow, quoting Matt Mason: Pirates are out there figuring out all the ways that products and services might catch on, outside of the realm of the managed, slow-moving corporate environment. It turns out that there’s a market for DVDs sold on blankets on Canal Street; that the public likes using BitTorrent even if it [...]
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Ebook

By Matt Mitchell | Published: March 24, 2008
That Cory Doctorow is one smart cookie. And I realize I’m posting this right after I just said I don’t like to repetitiously cover content that Boing Boing has already put out there, but here’s the exception: This is original content, not just a link to something discovered, and it’s on an issue that I’ve [...]
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Stories to read

By Matt Mitchell | Published: March 7, 2008
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, selected shorts now available online. If you liked that post, then try these...Society of S on October 17th, 2007Modern-Day Mythica, Chapter Five: Hillock on March 28th, 2008A Free Novella on December 3rd, 2008Modern-Day Mythica on March 24th, 2008Modern-Day Mythica, Chapter Two: Joe on March 25th, 2008
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Thinking about publishing online…

By Matt Mitchell | Published: December 19, 2007
There aren’t many success stories out there, that’s for sure. John Scalzi, Cherie Priest and David Wellington are the few that pop to mind who’ve put their work on a website and then sold the work(s) for print. I know there are others, but they are few and far between, and the numbers of writers [...]
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