{"id":151,"date":"2006-06-11T19:05:59","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T00:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=151"},"modified":"2025-01-15T01:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T01:04:51","slug":"the-cory-doctorow-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"The Cory Doctorow effect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For some reason, the e-book community looks at Cory Doctorow&#8217;s use of free electronic versions of his books as loss leaders for his p-book versions as a success story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As far as I can see, the fact that this actually <em>works<\/em> is proof that e-books are a failure. After all, if we were all regularly reading them, then giving away the electronic version would just be mean that Cory wasn&#8217;t getting paid. Since no one can make money of e-books anyway, <em>of course<\/em> you can give them away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, the e-book community looks at Cory Doctorow&#8217;s use of free electronic versions of his books as loss leaders for his p-book versions as a success story. As far as I can see, the fact that this actually works is proof that e-books are a failure. After all, if we were all regularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3496,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/3496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}