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Inside: Adobe steals your color; and more!

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Adobe steals your color: A SaaS on the mantel in Act I must go off by Act III.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1585913960741609472

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Hey look at this

* Honda Orders Big Takedown of Honda-Related 3D Printing Models From Maker Communities thedrive.com/news/honda-ord… (h/t Don Hayler)

* 2SAXY - Walk of Fame (h/t @mathowie) 3/

#15yrsago UK Minister detained at Dulles airport news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e…

#15yrsago Toronto Star runs paid “anti-counterfeiting” ad as news web.archive.org/web/2007103016… 4/

#10yrsago Faulkner estate claims that quoting his novels in films is both a trademark and copyright infringement hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

#10yrsago Commensense about ebooks web.archive.org/web/2012102801… 5/

#5yrsago Portuguese non-neutral ISP shows us what our Trumpian internet will look like web.archive.org/web/2017102901…

#5yrsago Spanish central government fires Catalonian government officials, police chiefs bbc.com/news/world-eur… 6/

#5yrsago Judge resigns and youth court shut down after baby is taken from mother over unpaid court fees clarionledger.com/story/news/201…

#1yrago Europe's trustbusters lose the plot: Filternet, made in Europe pluralistic.net/2021/10/28/cli… 7/

#1yrago All of science gets a general index pluralistic.net/2021/10/28/cli…

#1yrago The new DRM-breaking exemptions just dropped pluralistic.net/2021/10/28/cli… 8/

Yesterday's threads: Substituting economics for politics is a failure; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1585686355148931072

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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.

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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:

* #RadicalBookFair/@Lighthousebks (Edinburgh), 11/10
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* Chokepoint Capitalism at @WaterstonesOxf, Nov 12:
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
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* Big Ideas Live (London), 11/19
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Recent appearances:

* Why Patients Should Hack Med Tech (@Defcon 30)


* Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan (@Lithub)
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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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Today's top sources: Jonathan King (@MrJonathanKing). 21/