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dreams · 03-02-2009, 01:23 PM

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009...n-wilson-ebook

A couple of quotes..
Richard Lea
guardian.co.uk, Monday 2 March 2009 13.26 GMT

"Two years after Radiohead's pay-what-you-like album, In Rainbows, the independent UK publisher Faber is launching its own digital experiment, giving readers the chance to pay what they deem appropriate for historian Ben Wilson's latest book, fittingly titled What Price Liberty?

Wilson's examination of the value and meaning of liberty will be available to download on 27 April, six weeks before it is published on paper at £14.99, with readers given the freedom to set their own price, or even download it for free."

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"In the book, Wilson argues that the contemporary assault on civil liberties in the UK follows a decline in the importance and status of ideas of liberty in Britain's national culture, and that it is only through an understanding of history that we can fashion a liberty fit for the 21st century."

03-02-2009, 01:23 PM	#2
dreams It's about the umbrella Posts: 25,112 Karma: 56250158 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Sony 505\| K Fire \| KK 3G+Wi-Fi \| iPhone 3Gs \|Vista 32-bit Hm Prem w/FF	Faber launches 'pay-what-you-want' ebook http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009...n-wilson-ebook A couple of quotes.. Richard Lea guardian.co.uk, Monday 2 March 2009 13.26 GMT "Two years after Radiohead's pay-what-you-like album, In Rainbows, the independent UK publisher Faber is launching its own digital experiment, giving readers the chance to pay what they deem appropriate for historian Ben Wilson's latest book, fittingly titled What Price Liberty? Wilson's examination of the value and meaning of liberty will be available to download on 27 April, six weeks before it is published on paper at £14.99, with readers given the freedom to set their own price, or even download it for free." ..... "In the book, Wilson argues that the contemporary assault on civil liberties in the UK follows a decline in the importance and status of ideas of liberty in Britain's national culture, and that it is only through an understanding of history that we can fashion a liberty fit for the 21st century."