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Fri, 22nd August 2008
Free Books by Wired.com’s Leander Kahney
Editor’s note: This place comes from Wired.com programme application Leander
Kahney.
Wired’s Editor in Chief Chris playwright says the forthcoming of
business is free, and so my house and I are gift absent liberated copies
of my books.
Bill Pollock of No Starch Press has
seeded flooded electronic versions of my coffeetable books — Cult of Mac and
Cult of iPod — to Bittorrent via Pirate Bay.
We poverty to wager if gift absent copies of the books module hit some gist on
sales.
"I’ve been in business for meet over 20 eld and my upbringing has not
been to provide books away," writes
Pollock on the No Starch blog. "But I conceive there’s something to this
and system tells me that if we process the saliency of our titles, we’ll
sell more books."
We came up with the intent after datum most the awful success to
bestselling communicator Paulo Coelho, who seeds his possess books to file-sharing
networks and then promotes them
on his blog. Coelho claims enthusiastic success with "pirating" his possess books,
saying it has had a
slow but hammy gist on sales.
Of course, Coelho is an internationally acclaimed communicator with a high
profile, which haw statement for his success more than gift absent liberated books.
But still, it’s an research worth trying.
As Pollock says on his blog: "I conceive that publishers (music and book)
are outlay likewise such instance circling the wagons and not sufficiency instance thinking
of structure that they crapper ingest profession to advantage. Certainly, our advise here
is a taste unusual, but someone has to verify the plunge. May as substantially be us."
Here’s the torrent for Cult
of Mac.
And the torrent for Cult of
iPod.
If you download the books, advert to ready your stream computer unstoppered so
that others crapper also download the files.
Please permit me undergo what you conceive of the research and the books. Send
mail to: leander@wired.com
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