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This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017.

Cory Doctorow
3 min readDec 17, 2022

#20yrsago Libraries get Audible audiobooks https://web.archive.org/web/20030212115743/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/audiblelibraryusers/

#20yrsago Videos of GW Bush cracking jokes with Enron execs about accounting fraud https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-17-fi-enron17-story.html

#15yrsago David Byrne’s guide to being a musician in the 21st century https://web.archive.org/web/20080306023325/http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_byrne

#15yrsago David Byrne and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke talk music biz https://www.wired.com/2007/12/ff-yorke/

#15yrsago MTV declares music industry “broken” https://web.archive.org/web/20071219064344/https://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1576538/20071214/madonna.jhtml

#10yrsago Lessons from an author who switched from a commercial publisher to an audience-funded Kickstarter book https://tobiasbuckell.com/how-i-used-kickstarter-to-reboot-a-book-series/

#10yrsago Amazon Replacement Order Scam: anatomy of a social engineering con in action https://web.archive.org/web/20121230232140/https://www.htmlist.com/rants/two-for-one-amazon-coms-socially-engineered-replacement-order-scam/

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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