![]() NewsFree shipping on signed, inscribed copies of my booksI'll be attending the World Science Fiction Convention in Los Angeles from 23-27 August, and I've made arrangements with one of the book-dealers, San Francisco's Borderlands Books, to take orders for signed and inscribed copies of my novels and short story collection and cover the cost of shipping them within the US (you still have to pay for the books, though!). If you're interested in a signed, inscribed copy of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Eastern Standard Tribe, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town or my collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More, you can call (888.893.4008), fax (415.824.8543), or email your order to the store, and they'll get me to sign copies with your inscription. There is no charge for media-mail shipping within the continental US.
Priority mail in the US is $6.00 (that’s delivery within three Books will ship after the Worldcon, in late August. How iTunes screws the music industry and the publicIn my latest Information Week column, I discuss the way that loose, single-vendor anti-copying systems like iTunes Music Store DRM are just as bad for the public (and even worse for the music industry) as tight, super-restrictive systems are:
CBC column on authority and the InternetI recently wrote a column for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on how news-gathering works on blogs:
My Microsoft DRM talk videoTwo years ago, I spoke at Microsoft Research, giving a talk called "DRM and MSFT: A Product No Customer Wants." The talk (see the transcript) has become a very widely cited resource on DRM, and has been translated into several languages, repurposed as an audiobook and a PowerPoint presentation, and so on. The video has apparently been one of the most-requested videos on the Microsoft internal network for years. Now Microsoft has released this video to the public, though you need Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player to see it. Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About to Steal on the InternetI'm writing a six-times-a-year column for Locus Magazine, the excellent trade magazine for the science fiction publishing industry. My first column, "Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About to Steal on the Internet" has just gone live:
I, Row-Boat, Part 4 - CONCLUSIONHere's the fourth and final installment in a new story podcast. This time, it's "I, Row-Boat," a story I just finished about a story about a theological dispute between an artifically intelligent Asimov three-laws cultist and an uplifted coral reef. I, Row-Boat, Part 3Here's the third installment in a new story podcast. This time, it's "I, Row-Boat," a story I just finished about a story about a theological dispute between an artifically intelligent Asimov three-laws cultist and an uplifted coral reef. ![]() |
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