Lisa Galarneau sent me this nice item giving a bit of an insider's view of the activities following the free release online of Lawrence Lessig's new book, Free Culture. What I like about this article is not simply the statement of the argument in favour of free distribution (though there is that) but the way it describes how, when the book was released, people began to use it, making audio transcriptions, translations, even a wiki site. The story not only reflects the changing economics of content distribution, it shows that readers are no longer content to be passive consumers. The want and need to be able to work with, to interact with, the material.
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