01-17-2008, 02:17 AM | #1 | |
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Lawrence Lessig's "The Future of Ideas" set free
"The Future of Ideas" is now free for download thanks to Lawrence Lessig and his publisher, Random House.
The only downside is that the download is limited to a PDF version; anyone up to the "format shifting"? From Lawrence Lessig's Blog: Quote:
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01-17-2008, 06:02 PM | #2 |
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I guess this proves that at least some authors have power to influence whether or not their books are released as ebooks. This guy's even got them release as FREE ebooks.
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01-18-2008, 10:21 AM | #3 |
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They just forgot to insert bookmarks/hyperlinked ToC.
Pdf file was created with QuarkXPress 4.x in 2001, got it last editings in december 2007 [CC title, copyright cross-outs]. Yes, it is compatible with iLiad. |
01-18-2008, 03:28 PM | #4 |
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Would anyone mind emailing this to me? Uncle Sam has blocked the download link on government computers I'm forced to use. :-(
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01-18-2008, 03:32 PM | #5 |
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Has anybody managed to crop this file? I tried in Linux with pdfcrop but the result was not so good. Then I tried with pdfedit and got a file that looked perfect in xpdf and acroread but in my Gen3 it looks like the file I started with.
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01-18-2008, 05:42 PM | #6 | |
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http://www.munseys.com/book/25597/The_Future_Of_Ideas You can probably get it in a ready-to-read for your eBook reader there. |
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01-18-2008, 05:54 PM | #7 | |
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Perfect. It was very hard to find any other version and probably because the license was not Share Alike. I assume that Munsey must have gotten permission to distribute in other formats.
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01-20-2008, 06:37 AM | #10 |
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I just read about creative commons licenses and I was wrong here. The license allows you to format shift and distribute it. Even if it had been no derivatives you had been allowed to format shift it.
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01-21-2008, 05:09 AM | #11 |
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Good, that's what I thought that particular CC license allowed. Glad to see munsey had it for LRF already, though I haven't had the chance to check out the formatting yet.
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