Posts Tagged ‘books’

Letters to Craig Murray #6

25Sep21

###Letter #6 Delivered 19 Sep 21 Hi Craig, Heeding your words about not getting research done I’ve decided to keep to a weekly cadence. I’m now wondering which Lord George Murray you’re researching, as a quick search brings up a few of them over the years? It’s good to hear that books are making it […]


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Search in Google Books – not working?

13Jan11

There’s a passage on governance in Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus that I really like: ‘Groups tolerate governance, which is by definition a set of restrictions, only after enough value has accumulated to make the burden worthwhile. Since that value builds up only over time, the burden of the rules has to follow, not lead.‘ It […]


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eBooks and price discrimination

01Feb10

The weekend brought a bit of a storm over Amazon booting Macmillan off its platform, which has brought lots of worthy analysis from Charles Stross, Tim Bray and others. Perhaps I’m missing something here, but it seems to me that the whole problem with eBooks is that they have only one dimension for price discrimination […]


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