Buy this Book (Irony included free of charge).
Some scholars write contributions, some adjust the record, some revise it. And some scholars write definitive (and effing long) works. Adrian Johns is one of those scholars. I don’t get as excited about academic books these days as I once did when I spent a lot of time loitering in bookstores (not unrelated issue), but I’m so incredibly excited to have this book in the world I just can’t resist getting all swoony about it. You should too.
Christopher Kelty does anthropological and historical research on science and technology, free and open source software, intellectual property and open access, the history of software, and the ethics and politics of nanotechnology. He also teaches classes about all of these things. From 2001 to 2008 he was assistant professor of anthropology at Rice University, in Houston, TX. He know teaches at UCLA and splits his time between the Information Studies department, the Anthropology Department and the Center for Society and Genetics.
Here’s some more irony for you: Go to “this page”:http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ebooks/free_ebook.html on Monday February 1 and you can get a _Piracy_ for free in e-book format. Yeah, only on February 1. (But for the rest of the month of February you can get another book by Johns, _The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making_ for free in e-book format.) This is the URL: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ebooks/free_ebook.html
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Here’s some more irony for you: Go to “this page”:http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ebooks/free_ebook.html on Monday February 1 and you can download a free copy of _Piracy_ in e-book format. Almost like stealing. But, yeah, only on February 1. (But for the rest of the month of February you can get another Adrian Johns book, _The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making_ as an e-book.) This is the URL: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ebooks/free_ebook.html
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Is that a ship from Sid Meier’s 1987 game Pirates! (possibly the best game ever made) sailing on that progress bar?
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