Eight months ago, Kevin Carson called for a hack of Amazon’s Kindle.
He got his wish this week, just in time for Christmas. (CHT Sheldon Richman.)
"Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy.
About Roderick T. Long
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
I thought book writers were already ‘starving’ compared to film-makers, video-game companies, etc; it doesn’t seem like the utilitarian argument has much merit here.
I’m not sure what you mean. Of course they’re ‘starving,’ since most of the money from their copyrights goes to their publishers rather than to them.
That’s true, I meant in the sense of total revenue of books being substantially less than the other fields.