INDEX // mb Ideas on Publishing Books in Canada (and other attempts to write good)

The Horns For Ottawa Librarians

The US Fed lowered interest rates to almost zero today, effectively making money and government bonds indistinguishable — goodbye to the power of monetary policy.

The CBC is running a story today about the Ottawa library and ebooks. Overdive, mobipocket, and PDF ebooks are available for “lending”, effectively making library loans and book giveaways indistinguishable — goodbye to the strangle-hold book publishers have had on distribution.

That is overly dramatic, but bring on the information commons. It is about time somebody stopped treating intellectual property literally as property.


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