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,

Philippe
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