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Stephen Downes

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Concrete evidence from a science fiction writer, with sales figures from several books, to show that sharing free online copies of his work helps - and does not hurt - sales. Nothing I haven't said here before, but I like his approach to publishers who are fussing about increasingly complex encryption schemes and clamping down on file sharing: where is your evidence that this is a good business plan? As always, there's an educational angle: "Charles Vest, president of MIT, as an aside mentioned that when college textbook presses (like the one at MIT) put up free e-text copies of their new textbooks at the same time they published the print version, sales of the print versions went UP."

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