The Bitchun Business Plan

Cory Doctorow, co-editor of bOING bOING and author of the entertaining Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, takes to the pages of Forbes to explain why "I've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money." The key line: "I'd rather stake my future on a literature that people care about enough to steal than devote my life to a form that has no home in the dominant medium of the century."