I just noticed that Paul Carr has released his new book, “Bringing Nothing to the Party: True Confessions of a New Media Whore” as a Creative Commons BY-NC licensed download for the US. And the, um, rest of the internet.
I’m going to read it on my hot new Droid phone, but there’s only a PDF version and an HTML version. I want ePub format, so I converted it. You can download the ePub version of “Bringing Nothing to the Party” here.
It looks like Paul has put a CC-BY-NC license in his blog post, but has put also ND in his text. He’s also been thankful for a derivative work before, so I think he really means BY-NC. Regardless, if he asks me to take down the ePub, I will. You gotta make sure CC licenses actually match up with what you want.
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Thanks for sharing that. Would you mind posting a link to a free reader or something I can use to read the .epub file on my PC?
BTW, we are still waiting for that Droid review.
Thanks for the ePub! what did you use to make it?
I grabbed the html version, then downloaded http://calibre-ebook.com/ – Calibre is Free and Open Source and it will convert between most formats of ebook. After a few minutes of installing and figuring out how Calibre worked, I was done.
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