Dear Philippe and friends, I mentioned your new book yesterday in an article published on the first page of Nòva24, technology section at Il Sole 24 Ore (Italian financial daily).. Thanks for your book and ideas.. Yours Luca On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Philippe Aigrain < philippe.aigrain@sopinspace.com> wrote:
Apologies for multiple receptions of this message
Dear friends,
The book Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age that I wrote with the help of my daughter Suzanne is finally out (February 1st, 2012).
This message is to ask for your help in raising awareness globally about the book and its ideas, and for your participation in debating them (see below). It is also for expressing my personal thanks to each of you: the book would not exist without the many exchanges I had with nexaites and the inspiration I drew from them.
Sharing makes a case for the legitimacy and usefulness of non-market sharing between individuals of digital works. Taking stock of recent economic knowledge about the culture economy, it models and describes a financing model ("creative contribution") designed to sustain an expanding creative economy in a context where sharing is recognized as a right. Philosophical, legal, and institutional aspects are also discussed. The creative contribution (term that I used since 2008) is yet another flatrate mechanism, but as described in Sharing it has many original aspects (based on social rights, including both rewards/remuneration and financing to future works, data collection for rewards based on voluntary provision using automated recording on user machines and under their sole control, etc.)
Sharing is published under a hybrid publishing model with 4 components : - the paper book, marketed globally, - commercial eBooks in the US (more later) - an open access electronic version under a CC-By-NC-ND license< - a dedicated "live book" website at http://www.sharing-thebook.net, where you can comment on the book chapters, download source code and datasets, and run interactively our models with parameters of your choice.
Important links: - Book site: http://www.sharing-thebook.net - Amsterdam University Press book page: http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789089643858&l=2 - Chicago University Press (US distributor) book page: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo13742081.html - Best deal for US buyers is Barnes & Noble at $21.28: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sharing-philippe-aigrain/1106789389
Note that on-line stores still have the book as not yet published, but it's there.
Best,
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