On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 08:10 -0700, Jim Devine wrote: > I highly recommend Jeffrey Kaye's book, _Moving Millions: How Coyote > Capitalism Fuels Global Immigration_. It's an excellent journalistic > account of the issues of global migration. > > >From Publishers Weekly > > > Kaye, a special correspondent for PBS, writes that the American approach to > > immigration isn't working and suggests ways to change course. He uses the > > term coyote capitalism, a system of interlocking, dependent relationships, > > to describe how unauthorized Mexican labor recruiters trade in human cargo > > and influence migration. He examines how coyotes and various other > > businesses encourage, support, and benefit from both legal and illegal > > migration—and how globalization has made it increasingly profitable to do > > so. He also looks at American economic and trade policies that encourage > > rather than hinder migration. Kaye provides an insightful glimpse into > > recruitment agencies and their impact, and offers an astute study of the > > effects of politics, influence, and alliances on immigration. While a dense > > read, the book is well worth the effort. Kaye makes a convincing argument > > and offers, for many readers, a completely new perspective. (Apr.) < > > Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier > Inc. All rights reserved. < > > Amazon, where I got this review from, encourages you to buy the Kindle > electronic edition. But Beware! > > I bought this book partly because Jeff is a friend of mine. He > autographed it. But he couldn't do that with the Kindle edition (like > my copy of TechTransfer, a funny novel). More importantly, with the > Kindle edition, the reader's property rights in the book are severely > constrained: you can't give it away or sell it. It's nice that I can > read a Kindle book on my Blackberry phone. But even though I can copy > it to my PC, I can't figure out how to truly read it there. (Notepad > will open it, but it's quite hard to read. Is there a hacker in the > house?)
http://boingboing.net/2010/01/21/drm-free-kindle-book.html By Cory Doctorow << Amazon is selling Kindle books without DRM, but they still won't answer three fundamental questions: 1. Whether the terms prohibit moving DRM-free books to non-Kindle platforms; 2. Whether patents or other IP prohibit making third-party readers for the Amazon DRM-free format format; 3. Whether they can still revoke DRM-free files, or disable their features, and if so, which features can be disabled and what circumstances would lead to revocation. The answer to these three questions is the difference between owning a book and having an innocent book used as bait for a tawdry lock-in scheme. >> I don't know if the situation has evolved since january. For some history: http://www.defectivebydesign.org/decade-in-drm "kindle on PC" search term on google seems to give some "solution". > It's getting to the point where all "intellectual property" is rented > rather than owned (as humorist Harry Shearer had predicted). In 1997 Richard Stallman published "The Right to Read": http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html February 1997 issue of Communications of the ACM (Volume 40, Number 2). Laurent _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
