Cory Doctorow on Macropayments

In his column at Locus Magazine, Cory Doctorow has a piece on “macropayments.” It lays out a lot of his thinking in giving away his books for free, but also refutes the whole philosophical basis of micropayments at the same time. I like this bit:

Taking someone’s money is expensive. It incurs transaction and bookkeeping costs [...]

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Giving it Away

My Orycon panelmate Cory Doctorow has an essay in Forbes Magazine of all places, talking about his role as an author in the post-scarcity world. I am far from universally agreeing with everything Cory says, but I’m right with him down the line with his thinking on literature, the role of free works in the [...]

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Panel Rundown: The Great Writers Blog

Place: Orycon 2006
Sunday, 12 PM
Panelists: Cory Doctorow, Jay Lake, Mary Robinette Kowal
Moderator: Me
Jay and Mary were both people that I met as we sat down at the table and people that I liked quite a bit. I had a chance to talk to both in hallways later on and carry on the conversation a little [...]

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Down and Out Podcast

Listener and frequent commentor “Brooklyn Bluesman” is doing a sub-series in his podcast where he is reading aloud Cory Doctorow’s novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Cool stuff, check it out.
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Clambake Episode for July 9, 2005

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for July 9, 2005.
I send out what cold comfort I can to our friends in London; I play a song by Nathan Sheppard; I play my interview with Rocket City Riot drummer Mark Reiter and this week’s song; I play a promo [...]

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I Interview Cory Doctorow

My interview with Cory Doctorow for Voices in your Head is now live. Enjoy! Because of the Cory’s fame and the built-in BoingBoingability of interviewing him, without a doubt this will be the most listened to episode of Voices so far.
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