Showing posts with label Free Speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Free Speech. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Scribd.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/technology/internet/12books.html?ref=media

Scribd also gives publishers 80 percent of revenue. Amazon reportedly gives publishers about half of the list price of books sold for the Kindle, but also discounts many titles and in some cases chooses to make no revenue itself from those sales.

Interesting blog entry from Charles Nesson, Harvard Law School professor: http://www.scribd.com/doc/13831120/Nessonblog33009

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Free Speech

Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime, from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism, by Geoffrey R. Stone, W. W. Norton & Company

Navasky

A Matter of Opinion, by Victor Navasky, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Clarence Thomas and the Others

Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas, by Kevin Merida and Michael A. Fletcher, Doubleday.

The Supreme Court : The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America, by Jeffrey Rosen, Times Books

Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court, by Jan Crawford Greenburg, Penguin