A couple of days ago, Charles Stross released his new book Accelerando on the web in several different formats, in what he calls a "marketing exercise" to determine if more people will buy the physical book from Amazon or traditional booksellers, and to see if, after a spike in downloads from his site, a spike in sales occurs.The RIAA should be interested in an experiment like this -- but they wouldn't be.
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