Four years after Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom was published by Tor Books and simultaneously released under a Creative Commons license for free download on the web(!), California author Cory Doctorow is still writing award-winning books and still making a living. His latest, Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present, is available in stores (from Avalon Books) and free on the web. On the new book’s web site he writes about giving it away:
Why would I do this? Because I’m a science fiction writer. That means I have to be attuned to the future, or at least the present. Most people seem to live in the distant past, pausing occasionally to look around, do a spit-take, and say,
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