[Foundation-l] BBC "5 Live Investigates" on Books LLC, Sunday night 9pm UTC

[David Gerard]

On 28 January 2011 18:44, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 January 2011 13:56, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Yeah. The problem is there's no direct action we can really take
>> without hampering the good reasons for reuse of our material. Or just
>> scaring people off. I think the best we can do is raise awareness.
>> This will do that, slightly.

> I suspect that all we have to do is wait. Someone has effectively
> worked out how to spam Amazon. What one person can do so can others.
> Eventually the level of spam will rise to the point where Amazon will
> have to act or lose customers due to their service being degraded.


Yes. In the meantime, we can use publicity about this to spread
awareness that we're all about reusing our stuff, and that we would
only ask nicely that the books be represented accurately as curated
Wikipedia reprints. (This is a breathtakingly generous way of
describing them, but I'd suggest being nice to the idea of reprints as
we introduce civilisation to the notion of reusability as being the
normal order of things.)


- d.