piracy

  • On Self-Reliance: Frank Ocean as Emersonian Hero

    On Self-Reliance: Frank Ocean as Emersonian Hero

    As Emerson recognizes, someone who couldn’t care less about how they come across is all the more charismatic and convincing.

  • Russian Publisher Steals Authors’ Names

    Several western authors have had their names pirated by a Russian publisher that prints books about Vladimir Putin, reports the Guardian. The journalists, analysts, and authors did not write the books nor did they know about their publication. The Russian language…

  • Battling E-Pirates

    What happens when a philosophy professor takes on e-piracy? He discovers that it’s not quite as cut and dried as he first thought. Let me be clear–the issue of whether or not his work was pirated is clear. It unquestionably…

  • Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears

    The Sycamore Review paid someone for a poem. It cost them a quarter and the poem was written on a bar napkin. Sounds like a worthwhile trade. Kent Johnson on The New British School Publishing an e-version of your book?…

  • Want to kill e-publishing?

    I read stories like this one, where Amazon has gone onto their subscribers’ Kindles and removed books (refunding the purchase price, but still) because the publisher decided they didn’t want to make the books available electronically anymore, and I wonder…