Cory Doctorow's new science fiction story collection,
With A Little Help, is available in text and
audio. The stories range from an order of datamining monks to Google gone terrible wrong, and the readers include Neil Gaiman, Mur Lafferty, Mary Robinette Kowal and Wil Wheaton. The introduction is written by Jonathan Coulton.
posted by NoraReed
on Apr 3, 2011 -
97 comments
In hard economic times, people often look to cut their food budgets first. There may be a tasty source of nutrition you're overlooking, and it's right inside
your pants, or tucked
into your bra! (NSFW)
posted by fontophilic
on Dec 13, 2008 -
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Borders and Lulu.com have teamed up to create
Border's Lifestyle, a new service allowing anyone to design and publish their own book and have it distributed through Borders stores, even including your own book tour and in-store readings. Is it, according to Ben Vershbow of
if:book, "bringing vanity publishing to a whole new level of fantasy role-playing,"
1 or a real innovation in book distribution, bypassing the professional gatekeepers?
[more inside]
posted by stbalbach
on Feb 21, 2008 -
35 comments
Public Domain Books Reprints Service is "an experimental non-commercial project to re-print public domain books". It's the first service I have seen that allows simple affordable one-off point and click facsimile paperback replication of any book at Google Books or Internet Archive (millions of books). Curious how it works? Each book
includes the technical details (Perl+Ghostscript+DJVU+XLST+etc..). The "experiment" has been running since November and is created by
Yakov Shafranovich, a Russian Jewish immigrant in Baltimore of
many talents.
posted by stbalbach
on Jan 10, 2008 -
17 comments
