{"id":2400,"date":"2008-03-19T16:24:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T21:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2008-03-19T16:24:47","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T21:24:47","slug":"no-starch-press-giving-away-books-for-free-on-bittorrent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/03\/no-starch-press-giving-away-books-for-free-on-bittorrent\/","title":{"rendered":"No Starch Press Giving Away Books For Free On BitTorrent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/no-starch-press-giving-away-books-for-free-on-bittorrent\/#comments\" >No Starch Press Giving Away Books For Free On BitTorrent<\/a>: &#8220;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/frameset.php?startat=cult_mac\" ><img src='http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cult-of-mac.jpg' alt='Cult of Mac' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/frameset.php?startat=ipod\" ><img src='http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cult-of-ipod.jpg' alt='Cult of iPod' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>San Francisco publisher <a href=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/\" >No Starch Press<\/a> has stared experimenting with <a href=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/blog\/?p=127\" >giving away their books<\/a> for free on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bittorrent.com\/\" >BitTorrent<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/thepiratebay.org\/\" >The Pirate Bay<\/a>. Today they have seeded two of the popular titles that they publish, <a href=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/frameset.php?startat=cult_mac\" >\u2018Cult of Mac\u2019<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/thepiratebay.org\/tor\/4087853\" >torrent<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/frameset.php?startat=ipod\" >\u2018Cult of iPod\u2019<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/thepiratebay.org\/tor\/4087855\" >torrent<\/a>), both by <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leander_Kahney\" >Leander Kahney<\/a> of Wired. No Starch Press founder William Pollock has posted about why he\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/blog\/?p=127\" >testing out this unique form of book distribution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nWe\u2019ll be watching to see if making the electronic versions of these books available for free has any effect whatsoever on book sales. And if there is some noticeable effect whether it\u2019s a positive one. I hope so because I think P2P can be a very good and powerful too.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s electronic world we can choose to fight a losing battle with DRM, or we can take a counter-intuitive approach and turn things on their head.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\" >Laughing Squid<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Starch Press Giving Away Books For Free On BitTorrent: &#8220; San Francisco publisher No Starch Press has stared experimenting with giving away their books for free on BitTorrent via The Pirate Bay. Today they have seeded two of the popular titles that they publish, \u2018Cult of Mac\u2019 (torrent) and \u2018Cult of iPod\u2019 (torrent), both &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/03\/no-starch-press-giving-away-books-for-free-on-bittorrent\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No Starch Press Giving Away Books For Free On BitTorrent<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-CI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}