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I’m rereading Seth Godin’s The Bootstrapper’s Bible via DailyLit. I read the book 3 years ago from cover to cover before we launched Killer Aces. I’m not sure how much I absorbed back then, reading the book before having started a company.  Rereading it now, I see that some of the Bootstrapper’s Manifesto has stuck [...]

Amazon Kindle books are still too expensive. For a copy of a book that is locked up on your Kindle and can’t be shared with friends or resold, the $10 or so average is about twice as much as I want to pay. Yes, it’s already cheaper than a paper copy, but it’s still too [...]

Flat World Knowledge is a really cool implementation of Creative Commons. They publish textbooks that instructors can customize and students can read for free online. The textbooks are written by experts. Instructors can customize them for their own classes. They can add, remove and rearrage chapters and even sentences. Students can read them online for [...]