
As it happens, I have been know to look at my blog stats from time (!), and today I noticed something odd in the referrer stats:
FUCK Thomson Reuters! If you needed a reason to stop buying there textbooks, can you find a better one than this?

From the NYT: Don’t Buy That Textbook, Download It Free

According to David Bollier, CalTech professor R. Preston McAfee turned down a massive advance fee from a big publisher to publish one of his economics texts in favour of releasing it freely under a creative commons licence.
From my comment on Gardner Campbell's blog:
Hello, Gardner,
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