Free Pirates!
It’s been in the works for sometime now, but today is the day we have finally been able to make the book available for free online. Both my English language publishers (Simon & Schuster in the U.S. and Penguin in the U.K.) agreed we should release the book free online after the UK launch was out of the way, and that time is now.
Click here to get yours.
June 8th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
I already bought a hard copy, so I don’t feel super guilty about getting this digital copy for free. But I figured an extra digital copy would be handy.
The books awesome and everyone should pay at least 5 bucks.
June 9th, 2008 at 3:13 am
[...] Buch The Pirates Dilemma von Matt Mason kann herunterladen und dabei den Preis selbst [...]
June 9th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
sweet! Thanks Finally, I can download it without this wee feeling of guilt^^ Of course, I’ve already got it (and sure there is no need to ask where from:)))) But I’ve swear, I didn’t even open that file yet!!!
Yes, and I think you might be flattered a bit with a fact you are being read as far as in Ukraine)
Thanks again!
June 9th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Love the book, love the ideas, love the way you’re marketing it. I hope it wasn’t too aggravating convincing your publisher that free was the way to go. Well done! I’m a new fan!
Jess
June 10th, 2008 at 10:44 am
That’s what’s up! I’ll help to spread the word. Everyone with eyes and a brain needs to read this book.
One.
June 14th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
[...] Dilemma has arranged with his publisher to release his book as a free download. He’s doing a Radiohead, i.e. readers can decide freely if and how much they want to pay him. Recommended book by the way, [...]
June 22nd, 2008 at 10:55 am
[...] Find your copy of the Pirate’s Dilemma Here. [...]
June 25th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Awesome book!! I too just bought it hard copy and now download for free. I think its great the you are staying true to your sentiments in the book and making it available for free digital download. I have already been recommending it to my friends.
Nice work.
Cheers,
Toby.
July 7th, 2008 at 2:13 am
[...] Mason, author of „Pirates Dilemma“ (pdf, and see here and here) has done a nice “video trailer”, promoting the core ideas (and [...]
July 15th, 2008 at 3:38 am
Well, I’ll have to eat my hat I guess. I’m still incredibly disappointed that your book was not released under some form of copy-left license, or plain public domain but this is at least a step further in line with the ideologue you espouse than I thought you would be.
Doesn’t mean I like the book anymore though.
August 26th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
When I stumbled across this site, I was really excited to read your book, but I hadn’t even finished the first chapter before I was disappointed. Sexual harassment in the workplace is not revolutionary, progressive or positive in any way. Nor is objectifying women to peddle material goods. And not just the goods itself, no, but a reinforcement of the values of materialism. Because we all know, a shirt can’t ever just be a shirt, sold on the basis of its actual quality. It has to be mystified as wrapping paper for sex, otherwise people might think that it’s just a regular shirt and sales would drop. Everyone knows that the bottom lines of big businesses, even big businesses owned by the counterculture crowd, are more important than recognizing woman’s need to be treated with the dignity and respect afforded to man. If treating them like walking genitals is good for the bottom line, that is the end of discussion. So much for subverting the outdated values of the garment industry.
If Charney is a hero of the future, let me stay in the past, please. This is a man who scheduled a one-on-one meeting with a female employee, then showed up wearing only a sock over his penis and told her to masturbate with him. A man who regularly abuses his position to get sexual favors from female employees — employees who are subsequently fired when they hire a lawyer. That is NOT a “relationship” in my book. Yeah, that guy, the guy whose company has run ads that look like scenes from snuff porn, with women bruised, broken, alone and (of course) sexualised. American Apparel exhibits the exact same kinds of misogyny as most big businesses, but taken to extremes. There is no way in hell one can dehumanize half the world’s population and still compete on an ethical level, and I don’t think I could ever enjoy the work any author who suggests otherwise.
October 17th, 2008 at 4:56 am
[...] I’d polished off the Cory Doctorow’s, found a few passionate small/self-publishers, individual titles which authors were pushing, and ticked off a few classics I was dredging the ebook sites to find [...]
October 18th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
[...] C-Span’s website is a little lame. The video only comes up if you go to the website and click the video link for a flash pop-up. They won’t even let you embed their videos. But this one is worth it folks. One of the creators of Heroes introduces Matt Mason as he gives a talk on his book The Pirates Dilemma. [...]