“I spoke to Jasper Wang of Defector about how it’s building a worker-owned media company that’s a good example of an alternative path for media companies in the more-with-less era. Before that I have an essay on the emergent information space.”— BRIAN MORRISSEY, therebooting.com
“If you pirate a book and enjoy it, you’ll want more from that author, right? But you stole it, so the writer didn’t get paid. The publisher didn’t see sales. No more books from that author. You hurt writer, publisher, AND readers. Get it from a library if you can’t afford to buy.”— Alan Baxter, twitter.com
“Yes, books are spendy. BORROW IT FROM A LIBRARY. Libraries buy more copies if they're in demand. Ta-da! Paper trail, happy publishers.”— Maggie Stiefvater, twitter.com
“Well, I want to write’, and I wrote the book and what is the worst than can happen? It gets turned down by every publisher in Britain, big deal.”— J.K Rowling, telegraph.co.uk