Authors will also soon be able to make pre-published
drafts of their books available to Dymocks» network of passionate Booklovers for direct and private feedback.»
With my shameless book pitch out of the way (and with an open access final
draft of the book available here), let me suggest what the recognition of this right to knowledge might mean for copyright reform.
Not exact matches
It is true, it has become easier for people to just piece together a first
draft of something and have it
available for purchase but this doesn't mean good
books and great writers have become extinct.
The stroke
of genius that Ms. Hernandez conjured was in using AirDrop and / or Google Drive (both export functions are natively
available in the
Book Creator app), functions that allowed the student to share the «
draft»
of their ebook with the teacher, as well as the audio recording function
of the
Book Creator app, to provide that feedback.
Some
of it is verifiable, yet it's meaning is debatable (e.g. that having your
book available for with in 12 hours
of, I can only assume, you approving the final
draft for publication is somehow significant).
Sustainable Energy, Without The Hot Air Professor David J.C. MacKay, a natural philosopher in the Department
of Physics at the University
of Cambridge, is writing a «popular
book» on the problem
of weaning ourselves off fossil fuels, and he's made a
draft copy
available online.
Even when you use publicly
available samples from
books or other firms, developing competencies takes time and there is usually a lot
of resistance from partners when they are asked to
draft them.