A testek. Testek ebben az egyszerre szertartásosan intim és mégis nyilvános térben. A meztelenség nyilvánvalósága, egyszerűsége és szépsége. Mindenféle testek idők, élmények, történések számtalan lenyomatával. Újra és újra ismétlődő rítusai a tisztálkodásnak. Az egyének, nők, asszonyok, lányok privát kis ceremóniái. Ahogy habozzák, ahogy dörzsölik, ahogy hajolnak érte, ahogy szárazra törlik, szárítják, kapcsolják, gombolják, összehajtják, ahogy keresik a fény megfelelő szögét a tükörhöz közel hajolva, ahogy a szemüket festik, ahogy az utolsó simításokat végzik. Szeretem ezt a sokféle szépséget ilyen lehelet-közel érezni. Szeretem látni a bőr színének, állagának, pettyezettségének végtelen árnyalatait. Szeretem látni az öregséget. Szépnek látom az öregséget. Szépnek látom ahogy a testek megváltozott formában őrzik az erőt. Szeretem rajtakapni magam egy-egy elbambuláson. Szeretek olvasni, játszani, történeteket szőve továbbgondolni a jeleket. Egy kevéske információt, egy műtéti heget vagy baleset nyomát, testékszereket, tetkókat egy meghatározó mozdulatot.
The Baen Free Library is a digital library of the science fiction and fantasy publishing house Baen Books where (as of December 2008) 112 full books can be downloaded free in a number of formats, without copy protection. It was founded in autumn 1999 by science fiction writer Eric Flint and publisher Jim Baen to determine whether the availability of books free of charge on the Internet encourages or discourages the sale of their paper books.
The Baen Free Library represents an interesting experiment in the field of intellectual property and copyright. It appears that sales of both the books made available free and other books by the same author, even from a different publisher, increase when the electronic version is made available free of charge.
Do you have a sense of where these books are coming from and who is putting them online?
I assume they are primarily produced by individuals like me – bibliophiles who want to share their favorite books with others. They likely own hundreds of books, and when asked what their favorite book is look at you like you are crazy before rattling of 10-15 authors, and then emailing you later with several more. The next time you see them, they have a bag of 5-10 books for you to borrow.
I’m sure that there are others – the compulsive collectors who download and re-share without ever reading one, the habitual pirates who want to be the first to upload a new release, and people with some other weird agenda that only they understand.
“Google has found a way to let iPhone owners use Google Voice, launching a Google Voice Web app that runs on iPhone 3.0 OS devices, as well as on Palm WebOS devices. The Google Voice application leverages HTML 5’s functionality for running sophisticated Web applications on a browser at speeds matching those of native applications, Google said. The Google Voice-iPhone conflict is one of several issues putting the companies on a collision course, the latest of which involves Apple potentially courting Microsoft to tap Bing as the iPhone’s default search.”
RIAA:- “The need for deterrence cannot justify a $2 million verdict for stealing and illegally distributing 24 songs for the sole purpose of obtaining free music. Moreover, although Plaintiffs were not required to prove their actual damages, statutory damages must still bear some relation to actual damages.”
So says judge Michael J. Davis in a decision which states Jammie (seen here with her family) now owes Big Music $2,250 instead of $80,000 for each of 24 songs she’s said to have downloaded without permission.
Book sales in November rose 10.9%, to $808.5 million, at publishers who reported to the Association of American Publishers. Sales for the year through November rose 4.9%.
Among categories:
* E-books exploded 199.9%, to $18.3 million. * Audiobooks jumped 69%, to $18.4 million. * Adult hardcover rose 26.9%, to $204.4 million. * Higher education rose 24.2%,, to $197.1 million. * University press hardcover rose 21.9% to $5.4 million. * El-Hi basal and supplemental K-12 jumped 18.4%, to $136.9 million. * University press paperback climbed 2.7%, to $4.2 million. * Professional and scholarly rose 2.7%, to $57.1 million. * Children’s/YA paperback inched up 1%, to $43.9 million. * Religious books were flat, at $48.7 million. * Adult paperback fell 3%, to $92.3 million * Adult mass market dropped 9.8%, to $53.2 million. * Children’s/YA hardcover fell 13.5%, to $63.9 million.
The family of John Steinbeck has reversed its decision to oppose Google’s controversial plans to digitise millions of books, but a growing chorus of authors led by acclaimed science fiction writer Ursula K Le Guin have registered their resistance to the scheme.
Novemberben startolt az Indavideó Film, azóta elértük az egymilliomodik indítást. A nézők kedvence a Balaton retró, az Üvegtigris 1-2 és a Nyócker lett, a nagy nyertesek pedig az eddig szinte sehol sem látható kisfilmek: egyebek közt a Szalontüdő, az uristen@menny.hu és a Legkisebb film a legnagyobb magyarról.
According to O’Leary’s subsequent report, “Impact of P2P and Free Distribution on Book Sales,” book piracy wasn’t nearly as ubiquitous as some had suggested. While O’Leary’s report had only O’Reilly and Random House as participants, it appeared that some of the publishers’ fears about piracy were unsubstantiated. Only eight frontlist titles published by O’Reilly in 2008 could be located as torrent files. When these books did become available as torrents, the torrents were uploaded to the Internet far later than expected: some 20 weeks after publication date on average. Furthermore, for the titles available as torrents, on average, sales were 6.5% higher for these books during the four weeks after they were uploaded.
