With a Little Help
by Cory Doctorow · first published 2011
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With a Little Help is my first serious experiment in self-publishing. I’ve published many novels, short story collections, books of essays and so on with publishers, and it’s all been very good and satisfying and educational and so on, but it seems like it’s time to try something new. With a Little Help consists of 12 stories, all reprints except for “Epoch” (commissioned by Mark Shuttleworth) This book is also available as a limited edition hardcover, a free ebook (in several formats) and an audiobook. It is licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-SA. Download the book, buy the limited edition hardco
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…events. With the arrival of cheap 3D printers, there is now the possibility of making personalized tokens. As for offered books, I think hardcovers will become the tokens; for example, for Cory Doctorow's With a Little Help (which I've never read), the hardcover edition comes with an SD card with the ebook and even a audiobook. And the reality is that at least for me, only one in ten books or so actually have any meaning…
on “The lost world of physicality” ↗One of the stories in Cory Doctorow's "With a Little Help" is based on the problem of what do you sell to an "immortal, sovereign quadrillionaire living in a vat" http://craphound.com/walh/ [Edit: The whole of "With a Little Help" is available for free as…
on “Future Timeline” ↗…that we are now approaching. If the tomorrow project does that, I'm all for it. Update: I followed the link to Cory Doctorow's story Epoch in arethuza's comment. This in turn brought me to the full book With a Little Help. Its introduction reads: "It turns out the future doesn't really care about space travel. [...] Luckily, we have Cory Doctorow; he thinks about the Internet, a lot." I'm sold.
on “The Tomorrow Project: science fiction commissioned by Intel” ↗