Cory Doctorow Quotes - Page 4

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• Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about *everything* online. What's more, they've done it far cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever.

  Cory Doctorow

  Book, Effort, World

  Creative Commons Interview, creativecommons.org. August 1, 2005.

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• if it's not in my email archive, I don't know it

  Cory Doctorow

  Email, Archives, Knows

  Cory Doctorow (2011). “Context”, p.50, Tachyon Publications

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• There is no future in which bits will be harder to copy than they are today ... Any business model that based on the idea that bits will be harder to copy is doomed.

  Cory Doctorow

  Ideas, Today, Harder

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• I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

  Cory Doctorow

  Looks, Elements, Down And

  Interview with Richard Koman, archive.oreilly.com. March 4, 2005.

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• The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

  Cory Doctorow

  Peers, Stuff, Exciting

  Interview with Richard Koman, archive.oreilly.com. March 4, 2005.

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• The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

  Cory Doctorow

  Robots, World, Isaac

  Interview with Richard Koman, archive.oreilly.com. March 4, 2005.

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• There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a second copy of a book, cut the spine off, lay each page on a scanner, run that .tif through an OCR (Optical Character Reader), hand edit the resulting output for errors and then post it online if you don't love the book. it can up to 80 hours to turn a printed novel into an eBook. I figure if someone out there is willing to put in 80 hours of work promoting my book, then I'd prefer they do it in a way that gives a better return to me.

  Cory Doctorow

  Running, Book, Character

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• Digital Distribution and the Whip Hand: Don't Get iTunesed with your eBooks

  Cory Doctorow

  Hands, Digital, Distribution

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• The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper.

  Cory Doctorow

  Reading, Book, Mean

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• I don't know anything about press conferences." "Oh, just Google it. I'm sure someone's written an article on holding a successful one. I mean, if the President can manage it, I'm sure you can. He looks like he can barely tie his shoes without help.

  Cory Doctorow

  Mean, Successful, Shoes

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.230, Macmillan

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• Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

  Cory Doctorow

  Novel, Things To Do, Critical

  Interview with Richard Koman, archive.oreilly.com. March 4, 2005.

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• Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud.

  Cory Doctorow

  Coffee, Black, Wikipedia

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• Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day - that way, you can write three or five words without being “creative” and before you know it, you're writing.

  Cory Doctorow

  Writing, Rough Edges, Creative

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• Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.

  Cory Doctorow

  Fiction, Tales, Surreal

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• Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends -- if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

  Cory Doctorow

  Kings, Islands, Choices

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