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Lessig’s free book still racking up the sales

Matt Haughey, July 27th, 2004

Stanford Magazine carries a story this month about our chairman and co-founder Lawrence Lessig’s book which has just entered its third printing. This is interesting because the book is freely available online for download (under a Creative Commons license), and has been downloaded about 180,000 times. On the one hand an author can give away free content for folks to remake into audio books, translations, and other formats, and the author still gets paid through traditional book sales. Amazing how that works, and works so well sometimes. [via Copyfight]