Astute readers will have noticed that we’ve begun publishing our "Open Voices" e B ooks in the ePub format. Now, some of our best essays and interviews are available as…
Last month, this site featured an article about the startup I work for, Unglue.it. Briefly, we think more books should be available to the world under Creative Commons…
In 2008, representatives of the Personal Democracy Forum sent dozens of writers, pundits, politicians, entrepreneurs, researchers, and think-tankers the following prompt: When…
The always-insightful Alex Reid has penned an essay " on the question of open peer review," which examines a draft white paper posted to Media Commons last week. The paper—…
Think of a book you absolutely love. Now imagine being able to share a copy of that book with anyone, anywhere, as quickly and easily as you can send an email. Normally, this…
Last week, Winston Hide committed what he called "a toxic career move." Hide, an associate professor of bioinformatics and computational biology at the Harvard School of…