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  • From: paul jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [internetworkers] Cory Doctorow to Chapel Hill and free books for teachers & librarians
  • Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 10:32:21 -0400

First, boingboing.net contributor and author Cory Doctorow will be at
Fly Leaf Books in Chapel Hill on Sunday May 23 at 1 pm reading from
his latest young adult novel, For The Win.
http://www.flyleafbooks.com/andrew-young-flyleaf-books (ignore URL ref
to Andrew Young ;->). ibiblio is a co-sponsor of Cory's visit to
Chapel Hill.

Second, Tor (Cory's publisher) is offering free copies of For The Win
to teachers, librarians, youth workers and others. Of course it's also
free online.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/10/free-copies-of-for-t.html

More about Cory:

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction novelist, blogger
and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog
Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to Wired, Popular
Science, Make, the New York Times, and many other newspapers,
magazines and websites. He was formerly Director of European Affairs
for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil
liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy,
standards and treaties. He is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at Open
University (UK); in 2007, he served as the Fulbright Chair at the
Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern
California.
His novels are published by Tor Books and HarperCollins UK and
simultaneously released on the Internet under Creative Commons
licenses that encourage their re-use and sharing, a move that
increases his sales by enlisting his readers to help promote his work.
He has won the Locus and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the
Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards. His latest novel, New
York Times Bestseller LITTLE BROTHER, was published in May 2008, and
his latest short story collection is OVERCLOCKED: STORIES OF THE
FUTURE PRESENT. In 2008, Tachyon Books published a collection of his
essays, called CONTENT: SELECTED ESSAYS ON TECHNOLOGY, CREATIVITY,
COPYRIGHT AND THE FUTURE OF THE FUTURE (with an introduction by John
Perry Barlow) and IDW published a collection of comic books inspired
by his short fiction called CORY DOCTOROW'S FUTURISTIC TALES OF THE
HERE AND NOW. His latest novel is MAKERS, out from Tor
Books/HarperCollins UK in October, 2009.
LITTLE BROTHER was nominated for the 2008 Hugo, Nebula, Sunburst and
Locus Awards. It won the Ontario Library White Pine Award, the
Prometheus Award as well as the Indienet Award for bestselling young
adult novel in America's top 1000 independent bookstores in 2008.
He co-founded the open source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola,
sold to OpenText, Inc in 2003, and presently serves on the boards and
advisory boards of the Participatory Culture Foundation, the
MetaBrainz Foundation, Technorati, Inc, the Organization for
Transformative Works, Areae, the Annenberg Center for the Study of
Online Communities, and Onion Networks, Inc.
In 2007, Entertainment Weekly called him, "The William Gibson of his
generation." He was also named one of Forbes Magazine's 2007/8/9/10
Web Celebrities, and one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global
Leaders for 2007.
He will read from FOR THE WIN, a young adult novel about
macroeconomics, video games and the labor movement.



  • [internetworkers] Cory Doctorow to Chapel Hill and free books for teachers & librarians, paul jones, 05/10/2010

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