My advisor David Wiley is a guest blogger at the Chronicle this month and posted today about some of our research.  You can read the article here.

I recently finished the book Innovation Happens Elsewhere by Ron Goldman and Richard Gabriel (available as a free download at http://www.dreamsongs.com/IHE/). (Got to love people willing to share digital versions of their books). The book is about using open source and getting smart people outside of your organization to help do your work. I’m just [...]

One of the books that has really affected my thinking is Free Culture. In this book the author (Lawrence Lessig) points out that books have two lives He says, “Here is an idea that we should more clearly recognize. Every bit of creative property goes through different ‘lives.’ In its first life, if the [page [...]

I stumbled across a very interesting blog post by Robert J. Sawyer that was written about a year ago.  I read through the post and all of the comments and enjoyed seeing the exchanges that took place. One part of the post that I was particularly interested in was Sawyer’s analysis of the financial benefits [...]

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I stumbled across some interesting posts made by authors who have given away free digital copies of their work.  Although both of these posts are about a year old they both offer interesting insights from the perspective of an author about how free digital book distribution affects sales. Many of the comments are insightful too. [...]