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experimental/diy publishing
- bust down the door and eat all the chickens - a journal of absurd and surreal fiction
- the metamorphosis of prime intellect - a novel by roger williams
- down and out in the magic kingdom - cory doctorow
- bitmunk- the first legal, copyright-aware, peer-to-peer distribution system in the world
- crimethinc - they rock. experimental in a different way, but worthy of being listed here.
- Baen Free Library - another wonderful press making some of its titles available for free online. Fantastic!
- no media kings! - diy all the way.
- guerilla press - a free independent publishing resource site.
- Fell by Warren Ellis - Warren Ellis, in addition to being an amazing writer in general, challenges the comic industry with a new format - 16 pages of tightly written story at a wonderfully accessible price.
related links of interest
- share the music day - a great page detailing the ills of the music industry that is pro-contribution based artist payment systems.
- the anti-DRM speech cory doctorow gave to microsoft - it starts off with “Greetings fellow pirates! Arrrrr!” and only gets better from there. A serious and dead-on deconstruction of the inherent flaws of digital rights management.
- the tip jar as revenue model - a report on one experiment with a contribution based system (in which the novel in question was online only).
art sites
- black market culture
- jesse reno
- dischord records
- banksy
- adbusters
- pictures on walls
- art crimes
- stencil revolution
- illegal art
- deviant art
- understandard artists network
- art renegades
- seattle lighten-up gallery
- jack fischer gallery
- outsider art
- die art die
- you and i productions
- rake art group
- the internet art database
worthwhile reading
- this side of the city
- all is fiction (in french and english)
- the nervous breakdown