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Inside: A giant grocery merger will send "inflation" through the roof; and more!

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Today (Oct 17), I'll be presenting remotely to @copyrightcentre's Copyright Evidence: Synthesis and Futures conference in Glasgow:

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A giant grocery merger will send "inflation" through the roof: The Kroger-Albertson's merger will trigger massive price-hikes.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1582036374772858881

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#20yrsago Developing world kept down by intellectual property nytimes.com/2002/10/14/bus…

#20yrsago Open spectrum explained — REALLY well (by @kwerb) web.archive.org/web/2002102923…

#15yrsago Logo’s 40th birthday wired.com/2007/10/forwar… 4/

#15yrsago Law-firm: copyright prohibits “view source” on our page pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2007/1…

#10yrsago Universal Computer Users contemporary-home-computing.org/turing-complet…

#10yrsago Gary McKinnon on the decision not to extradite him to the USA theguardian.com/world/2012/oct… 5/

#5yrsago @StephenFry’s lecture on a hopeful, cautious, excited vision of a better technological world

#5yrsago WPA2 was kracked because it was based on a closed standard that you needed to pay to read wired.com/story/krack-wi… 6/

#5yrsago Bake: fizzing Alien facehugger pudding-cups web.archive.org/web/2017100916…

#5yrsago Panama Papers journalist assassinated by car bomb in Malta mirror.co.uk/news/world-new… 7/

#5yrsago Listen up: you really owe it to yourself to read 15 Vlad Taltos novels, seriously memex.craphound.com/2017/10/17/lis…

#5yrsago Jeremy Corbyn: damned right we’re a threat to the economic order theguardian.com/politics/2017/… 8/

Yesterday's threads: RIP, Roger Wood, genius assemblage sculptor; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1581643740690583552

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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from @BookSoup:

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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at @darkdel:

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, @beaconPressBks et al) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

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Upcoming appearances:

* The Global Governance of Online Harms - @LawMcGill (Montreal), 10/20
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* @LibraryJournal Day of Dialog (Zoom), 10/20
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* Chokepoint Capitalism Event, @ArgoBookshop (Montreal), 10/23
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Surviving Apocalyptic Economics, with @Rushkoff and @rgibli, Ottawa @Writersfest, 10/24
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* @WEDF_forum, 10/26-28
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* #RadicalBookFair/@Lighthousebks (Edinburgh), 11/10
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
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Recent appearances:

* Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan (@Lithub)
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* Sex and Politics with @fakedansavage (use code "Doctorow" for a free month):
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* Regulating the Online Public Sphere (@ColumbiaGFoE)
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Happy #SpookySeason! My picture book "Poesy the Monster Slayer" is the perfect read for your little monsters: it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by @McRockefeller.

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