Cory Doctorow - Part 2: New publishing models for creators, Amazon as a frenemy, and the Internet Archive court case

Author, journalist, and activist Cory Doctorow talks about the new publishing models available to creators, the consolidation of the publishing and distribution markets, the emergence of Amazon as a frenemy to publishers and the misunderstandings that led to the Internet Archive court case.

Highlights with timestamps:
1:26 Cory talks about the new publishing models for books, the Creative Commons license, and how other people can also make money even after putting their content online for free 
15:20 Cory also explains the reasons why his publishers asked him to stop using the Creative Commons licenses 
18:34 Cory talks about the Internet Archive, what it is, what it does, and why it was under attack by the publishers as an act of piracy claiming that they were acting as a library 
22:50 Cory talks about the Horthy Trust, what it is and what it does 
26:38 Cory talks about the particular moment when he hit the wall and now thought that there was something wrong there 
31:26 Cory talks about the things that he would like to see happen in the next five to 10 years so as to break the walls and move forward 

Shows Mentioned:
Open Rights Group: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/ 
Craigslist: http://www.craigslist.org/ 
Google: http://www.google.com/ 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ 
Apple: https://www.apple.com/ 
Safari: http://www.apple.com/safari 
Nasdaq: https://www.nasdaq.com/ 
Google Book Search: https://books.google.com/books?uid=117522004192189783614 
AltaVista: http://www.altavista.com/ 
Yahoo: https://www.yahoo.com/ 
Digital Millennium Copyright Act: https://www.copyright.gov/dmca/ 
Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ 
Macmillan: https://macmillanlibrary.com/ 
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/ 

Quotes Mentioned:
“We should acknowledge that the press is in trouble financially.”
“If you don't know what's causing the problem, then simply doing something won't necessarily fix it.”
“A tractor without its software is just an inanimate lump of metal.”
“If you're not paying for the product, you're the product.”
“Publishing is connecting an audience with a work.”
“All the e-books are priced the same, thanks to various most favored nation deals between Amazon and the publishers and the other ebook stores.”
“One of the reasons e-book sales went down would probably be because people got tired of reading off of screens.” 

Guests Social Media Links:
Guests Social Media Links: 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cory-doctorow-a96558195/ 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cory.doctorow.75 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cory_doctorow/ 
Website: https://www.eff.org/ 
Personal website: https://craphound.com/ 
Email: doctorow@craphound.com 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/doctorow 

Call to Action Links:
website: www.walledculture.org
podcast: tbd