Archive for April, 2007

On the Premise that Giving Books Away for Free on the Internet Boosts Book Sales

I've heard a lot of arguments about whether or not giving books away on the internet will lead to greater book sales. Let's simplify it to some math. Let the number of people who know about a book be called [math] K [/math] Let the percentage of people who buy the book who know about it be [...]

Wiley and Fair Use

My favorite website Boing Boing is reporting their outrage at Wiley getting upset at a research student posting a table and a graph (or figure) from a scholarly article on her blog. Of course, Wiley is right. You can't take someone else's creative work (that is, a figure) and reproduce it without their permission. Wiley's whole [...]

Turn-Off the TV Week

I support Turn Off the TV Week, in principle at least.

New Host, New Features

Greetings folks (all five of you). Just to let you know I've moved PulpLit.net to a new host, and with that new host comes new features, like math in posts, such as : [math] \pi R ^2 [/math] These new features will no doubt make me sound much, much smarter ((and footnotes! Tiny, tiny footnotes!)). I'll get the [...]

Test of Figure Render

[math] \int_{0}^{1}\frac{x^{4}\left( 1-x\right) ^{4}}{1+x^{2}}dx = \frac{22}{7}-\pi [/math] How lovely