Archive for the ‘Open Fiction’ Category

Cory’s DIY Experiment

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

He finally shares details on his print-on-demand, short fiction anthology. I will admit to some insider knowledge of Cory's plans and relief that he is finally publicizing parts of what is a very ambition business plan. There is much here that should be familiar by now due to similar experiments by ...

Author’s Thoughts on His Free Content Work Being Re-published

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Via Gnat's four short links post for today at O'Reilly. Mark Pilgrim explains very clearly that re-publishing without his explicit permission is a large part of the point in him choosing not only an open but a free as in free software license for his book. Important to note that ...

Advice from a Published Author on Negotiating a CC License

Friday, January 16th, 2009

One of the questions I get when I speak and participate at events discussing the Creative Commons is from creators working with traditional publishers. I can rattle off a few facts and examples but to date have lacked a particularly coherent answer. I remain convinced that such creators ...

Librivox Hits 365 Days of Audio

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Librivox is a collaborative project to record audio for public domain books and release it on the note. Their goal is to provide a free audio book for every title in the public domain. Ambitious to say the least and I know a few podcasters pitching in. They hit ...

Ben Rosenbaum Encouraging Remix of “The Ant King and Other Stories”

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

It is getting difficult to keep up with book and music releases that qualify as open content lately. Such a complaint to have, I know. I am way behind on both my reading and recommendations. Ben Rosenbaum's recent release of his short story collection, "The Ant King and Other ...

More on Feedbooks

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Michel over at the P2P Foundation, a group interested in peer production and peering models of all sorts, has some more background on Feedbooks. He contact them and they appear to have gladly given him some more information on their technology choices, features and how they'd ideally like to ...

New Edition of Playing for Keeps, Mur Lafferty’s Podcast Novel, Launches August 25th

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Mur Lafferty (who also originally founded this site) is the latest but not the least in a succession of independent authors leaping the gap into the world of traditional publishing. Mur did a stunning job launching her novel as a podcast work last year.  So much so that she ...

A Great Source for Free and Open eBooks

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

I have been trying to resist using my iPod Touch for much more than music playing as I am a recovering PDA addict. However, recently its potential for reading e-books has been revealed to me through a nice little (non-free) app, Annotater. Honestly, I installed it more so ...

John Kessel’s “The Baum Plan” as Free CC Download

Monday, July 28th, 2008

In an effort to get caught up as well as try to establish a habit of writing regularly, I am working through my backlog of bookmarked items. The oldest item I have to catch up on is this story about a short story collection from John Kessel, "The Baum ...

Results of Free, Online Edition of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

This seems to be the week where many publishers' experiments with giving works away are coming to fruition. I already shared Bloggasm's interview with authors participating in Tor's free ebook promotion. Now Neil Gaiman shares the results of the edition of American Gods that was posted online to ...