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A note about this book, February 12, 2004:
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As you will see, when you read the text beneath this section, I released this book a little over a year ago under the terms of a Creative Commons license that allowed my readers to freely redistribute the text without needing any further permission from me. In this fashion, I enlisted my readers in the service of a gra...
When I originally licensed the book under the terms set out in the next section, I did so in the most conservative fashion possible, using CC's most restrictive license. I wanted to dip my toe in before taking a plunge. I wanted to see if the sky would fall: you see writers are routinely schooled by their peers that ma...
It wasn't foolish. I've since released a short story collection:
A Place So Foreign and Eight More
http://craphound.com/place
and a second novel:
Eastern Standard Tribe
http://craphound.com/est
in this fashion, and my career is turning over like a goddamned locomotive engine. I am thrilled beyond words (an extraordinary circumstance for a writer!) at the way that this has all worked out.
And so *now* I'm going to take a little bit of a plunge. Today, in coincidence with my talk at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference:
Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2004/view/e_sess/4693
I am re-licensing this book under a far less restrictive Creative Commons license, the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. This is a license that allows you, the reader, to noncommercially "remix" this book -- you have my blessing to make your own translations, radio and film adaptations, sequels, fan fiction...
Here's the license in summary:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/
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