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Attributor Helps Media Companies Crack Down on Web Scofflaws
Websites that scoop up content from the mainstream media without compensation are being put on notice: Pay up or risk being shut down. The warning comes from Attributor, a California-based company that monitors web content on behalf of magazine, newspaper and book publishers. Earlier this month, Attributor announced a "new model for online content syndication" called FairShare Guardian. It's not...
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Can Crowdfunding Work for Narrative Non-Fiction?
In 1978, in the middle of a deep economic recession, an 18 year-old girl named Dolly Freed wrote a book about living in a non-monetary economy called "Possum Living: How to live well without a job and with almost no money." The book described how Dolly and her father were able to live happily in rural Pennsylvania on less than...
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