[p2p-research] Makers serialized online

[Kevin Carson]

  Sent to you by Kevin Carson via Google Reader: Makers serialized
online via Cory Doctorow's craphound.com by Cory Doctorow on 7/6/09

Pablo from Tor has the details on a cool new promo they're doing to
promote my next book, Makers, which'll be published in the fall
(HarperCollins UK will publish it in the UK, Australia, NZ, and other
parts of the commonwealth). Makers tells the story of a group of
hardware hackers who fall in with microfinancing venture capitalists
and reinvent the American economy after a total economic collapse, and
who find themselves swimming with sharks, fighting with gangsters, and
leading a band of global techno-revolutionaries. The first 50,000 words
of Makers were serialized on Salon some years ago under the title
Themepunks.


Starting today around noon (Eastern Standard Tribe, of course), and
throughout the rest of the year, Tor.com will be serializing Makers,
Cory Doctorow's upcoming novel, which goes on sale from Tor Books in
Novemb er. We'll be serializing the entirety of the novel, with a new
installment every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, until the whole thing
is finished, sometime in January 2010. Each installment of Makers will
be accompanied by a new illustration by Idiots'Books (idiotsbooks.com),
which will interconnect with the other illustrations in the series, and
offer limitless possibilities for mixing and matching the illustrations
in the series. In a week or so, after we've posted a number of tiles,
we'll release a Flash game in which users will be able to re-arrange
the illustration tiles on a grid and create their own combination of
layouts.

I'm planning on repeating the tribute to booksellers I made with the
free release of Little Brother, introducing every section of the serial
with a little hymn to some bookstore or other; booksellers are clearly
on the side of the angels (I speak as a former bookseller!).

However, I'm doing this one a little differently; rather than write up
my favorite booksellers, I'm asking for your favorite bookstores -- in
the comments for each section of the serial, I'd like you to write up
testimonials for your favorite stores. I'll pick three every week to
add to that week's installments, by way of spreading the love around.

Announcing Cory Doctorow’s Makers on Tor.com

Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 1 (of 81)

(Thanks, Pablo!)

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