AUDIOBOOK
Content
Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
Cory Doctorow3.5
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About
Hailed by Bruce Sterling as a "political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek," Cory Doctorow is the web's most celebrated high-tech pop-culture maven. Content is the first collection of Doctorow's infamous articles, essays, and polemics. Here's why Microsoft should stop treating its customers as criminals (through relentless digital-rights management), how America chose copyright and Happy Meal toys over jobs, why Facebook is taking a faceplant, how Wikipedia is a poor cousin of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and, of course, why free e-books kick ass. Accessible to geeks and noobs (if you're not sure what that means, it's you) alike, Content is a must-have compilation from Cory Doctorow, who will be glad to take you along for the ride as he effortlessly surfs the zeitgeist.
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Reviews
"Doctorow here proves he's smart, funny, and good at accessibly boiling down issues he's passionate about…He compares Internet content-management problems to similar technological snafus-such as the transition from live performance to radio and from manuscript to printed books-and how the established order of the day reacted, demonstrating his grasp of the ways in which history repeats itself and
Booklist
"More than just insightful, brilliant, and to the point-it's also funny and fun to read."
Electronic Frontier Foundation
"If you want to know what's happening at the sharp end of digital publication and new ideas about the relationships between authors and their readers-do yourself a favour and listen to what he has to say."
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