"I've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money." Cory Doctorow on the future of publishing.
"In the new global world of censorware, we all live on Syria's internet, China's internet, filtered by companies whose first priority is to ensure that Beijing is happy with its work."
"A super-sharp, super-portable screen would be used to read all day long, but most of us won't spend most of our time reading anything recognizable as a book on them."
"Interviewing Cory Doctorow is easy. You just flip the on switch by asking the first question, and he emits a constant stream of brilliant, insightful stuff." Interviewed by R. U. Sirius.
"You don't have to use a blog to blog, in other words. But you can. Using a blog as a back-end for your website is a gun on the mantelpiece — it's going to go off before the Singularity." Do
"You could give writers a million years of copyright and the right to behead people who infringe their rights and it wouldn't change the word-rate at Asimov's."
"Special effects have come to define each season's new hotness at the box-office. Since the days of morphing, we've gone to the big screen in order to see what impossibility was wrought by the ne
"Information wants to be free—and so does writer Cory Doctorow, who celebrates the new technologies that will change science fiction forever." Interview at SciFi.com.
The ever-controversial Cory Doctorow fields his copyleft views in one of the SF&F heartlands, Locus. I think we can expect a major blogstorm over this one in the next week or so.