links for 2009-05-01

Ian MacLeod wins the Clarke award-congratulations to him and a great job from PS Publishing.

Via boingboing. Bloomsbury Academic are releasing Lawrence Lessig's latest book REMIX DRM free and, well, cost free here. Get yours while it's hot. Beginning to wonder when the novelty of free will wear off.

Late to the game on this one, but there is an active forum on amazon.com boycotting ebooks priced above $9.99. So the it begins.

The week's big news. This one was kept on the d low. We'd like to second Kassia's view that it couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of guys- go Lexcycle! Very smart move from Amazon to.

The first Welsh ebook. "Garmon Gruffudd said: “Production costs for e-books are far less than for printed books. You don't have to take paper, ink and glue into account. Nor do you have to worry about delivery costs or warehouse storage. It means we can sell Welsh language books to readers all over the world without the great expense of distribution and postage.”