An edition of With a Little Help (2011)

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An edition of With a Little Help (2011)

With A Little Help

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This is the .PDF version of Cory Doctorow's With a Little Help collection of short story.

With a Little Help is also an experiment in self-publishing and marketing a work under a Creative Commons license: in print, audio and online text. All formats, and materials about the experiment, are available from http://craphound.com/walh. See also Jonathan Coulton's introduction to What a Little Help:
"...With a Little Help is an experiment of sorts, an attempt to re-imagine what it means to publish, market and sell a book. It will be self-published, and like all of Cory's books it will be released under a Creative Commons license that allows for non-commercial sharing and remixing. There will be a number of price-points, ranging from free ebook and audiobook downloads, to print-on-demand paperbacks, to hardcover special editions with all sorts of extra goodies. The highest price-point comes with an opportunity to commission a brand new story based on a mutually agreeable premise (hence, "Epoch"). Throughout the process Cory will hold weekly public production meetings on Twitter in an effort to share information about the success or failure of these strategies. The plan combines a lot of different new ideas - audience participation, free culture, long tail economics - and it will test a few hypotheses about what it might mean to be an author in the future. It's a shotgun approach to innovation; as the old business models become quaint antiques from a not-so-distant past, sometimes the best way forward is simply to try a bunch of stuff and see what works. ... "

The only reason for uploading the PDF file of With a Little Help here is that the software of the Internet Archive derives DAISY files from PDFs for print-disabled readers: see Welcome to Daisy Books for the Print Disabled.

Update (Jan 31,2011): Actually, the IA software also derived other formats, besides DAISY:
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For EPUB, Kindle (actually .mobi) and Full text, it is preferable to use the versions provided by Cory Doctorow and his fans in http://craphound.com/walh/e-book/browse-all-versions.

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English
Pages
361

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Cover of: With a Little Help
With a Little Help: Little Help
2017, Independently Published
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With A Little Help
2011, Sweet Home Grindstone
Paperback in English
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With a Little Help
2011-03-15, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Cover of: With A Little Help
With A Little Help
2011, Sweet Home Grindstone
Paperback in English
Cover of: With A Little Help
With A Little Help
2011, Sweet Home Grindstone
Paperback in English
Cover of: With A Little Help
With A Little Help
2011, Sweet Home Grindstone
Paperback in English

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Frank Wu

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
361
Dimensions
9.0 x 6.0 x inches

ID Numbers

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OL24637574M
Internet Archive
WithALittleHelp
ISBN 13
9780557943067

Work Description

With a Little Help is my first serious experiment in self-publishing. I’ve published many novels, short story collections, books of essays and so on with publishers, and it’s all been very good and satisfying and educational and so on, but it seems like it’s time to try something new. With a Little Help consists of 12 stories, all reprints except for “Epoch” (commissioned by Mark Shuttleworth) This book is also available as a limited edition hardcover, a free ebook (in several formats) and an audiobook. It is licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-SA. Download the book, buy the limited edition hardcover and audiobooks at craphound.com/walh.

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October 12, 2023 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
September 19, 2011 Edited by 213.28.111.194 Update covers
June 10, 2011 Edited by mikemccabe Add subjects
April 27, 2011 Edited by Dan Scott Add first sentence from the first story ("The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away")
April 26, 2011 Created by Dan Scott Added new book.