books Horse Yoga, All About Pockets, How God Gives Us Ice Cream, and a slew of other weird books David Pescovitz
happy mutants Watch the trailer to "The Booksellers," a documentary on the enduring, eccentric world of rare book selling Gareth Branwyn
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Business Microsoft is about to shut off its ebook DRM servers: "The books will stop working" Cory Doctorow
china Hong Kong's #612strike uprising is alive to surveillance threats, but its countermeasures are woefully inadequate Cory Doctorow
surveillance Hong Kong's #612strike protest movement: a million strong, leaderless, wireless and smart as hell Cory Doctorow
authoritarianism The latest popular uprising in Hong Kong is fighting to keep Beijing from dragging dissidents to mainland China Cory Doctorow
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Copyfight Microsoft announces it will shut down ebook program and confiscate its customers' libraries Cory Doctorow
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Business A celebration of Libro.fm: the indie, DRM-free Audible alternative that helps your local bookseller (with giveaway!) Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Blame authors' fortunes on monopolism, not university professors, booksellers and librarians — UPDATED Cory Doctorow
science fiction Science fiction, predicting the present, the adjacent possible, and trumpian comic dystopias Cory Doctorow
