Free downloads today (3/31): The Wikileaks Files, Inventing the Future, and more

[villager]

In January 2013, Aaron Swartz, under arrest and threatened with thirty-five years’ imprisonment, committed suicide. He was twenty-six. But in his short life he had changed the world: reshaping the Internet, questioning our assumptions about intellectual property, and creating some of the tools we use in our daily online lives.

In this recently published collection of his writings—The Boy Who Could Change the World—Swartz displays his passion for and in-depth knowledge of intellectual property, copyright, and the architecture of the Internet. The Boy Who Could Change the World contains the life’s work of one of the most original minds of our time, whose tragic suicide shook the world.

In tribute to Aaron Swartz—and to mark the publication of his writings—we've made the following ebooks available for FREE download for one day only! Unfortunately we don't have the North American rights to The Boy Who Could Change the World so this is book is NOT available for download in North America, but there are 5 other books to choose from!

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http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2575-psst-downloading-isn-t-stealing-for-today?utm_source=Master+List&utm_campaign=8c2c272ad7-US+Direct+-+Swartz+%26+other+free+ebooks+promo&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1f96ba5fab-8c2c272ad7-410275861

[drm604]

1. Ordering seems to be broken.

I ordered some of those titles, but when I try to download the Kindle version, it says "Preparing your personalized download. Please wait..." and then nothing happens.

When I tell it to email the books to me, I never get an email. I've contacted their customer service about it.

Edited to add: I heard back from customer service. Their servers are overloaded with free book requests. This is what's preventing the downloads. They suggested that I try again later.

[villager]

2. Well -- good to know the promotion is working! Thanks for the update though....

Also, I'm not sure which time zone the "24 hours" ends in....

[drm604]

4. Mine are ordered and are sitting in my "library",

so I assume that since I ordered them within the 24 hours I can download them whenever I'm able to.

[Blue_Tires]

3. I'll pass, thanks...

[villager]

5. Thanks for the kick!

...so that others will know about it!

[Blue_Tires]

7. I have a charitible heart, so I'll keep kicking this the rest of the day

if you think it would make the first fucking bit of difference, that is...

Just remember that I did you a favor.

[villager]

8. Is it really a "favor" if you keep insisting on its remembrance?

Nonetheless, glad for the ongoing kicks...

[Blue_Tires]

9. Of course it is..

Through no obligation I'm helping you maintain visibility for a cause and a person have no stake in, and find abhorrent, personally...

And I'm guessing you've never known the distinct pleasure of doing someone a favor only for them to later pretend that it never happened when you need THEIR worthless ass for something -- Ergo, that is why a gentle reminder wouldn't be amiss in this situation...

[villager]

10. Generally, when I do favors, I don't follow up with with talking about their "worthless ass..."

But maybe that's just me?