Mur Lafferty [I should be Writing], interviewing Cory Doctorow at Tor.com at Worldcon 2009.
ML: All right, this is Mur Lafferty, here at Worldcon 2009, with Cory Doctorow. How are you, Cory?
CD: I’m a little tired, but I’m definitely having a great time. This is your classic Worldcon Sunday, where you haven’t slept much because of the parties, and it’s slightly compounded by the jet lag, and then compounded yet again by the fact that my wife took ill early on, I’ve been up with her while she threw up for the first couple of nights, which is fun. She’s feeling a lot better. She got strep throat on the way down, and they put her on an antibiotic that made her very sick, and she switched off of that onto a much nicer antibiotic that she’s now up in good sorts and off shopping in town, so…
ML: Oh, my goodness.
CD: Bit of a bummer, yeah.
ML: Yeah, no kidding, but I’m glad she’s doing better.
CD: She’s doing better, we’re catching up on our sleep. All is good.
ML: Good. Well, first I want to discuss your awesomeness last night, you had Neil Gaiman reading your story “The Right Book”?
CD: “The Right Book,” yes.
ML: And then you announced your new self-publishing venture. I’d like to talk to you a little bit about that.
CD: Yeah, I’d like to think of it more as a stunt than a venture, but…
ML: Okay.
CD: I don’t know what I’m going to call it, a project. So, with a little help, the idea is to kind of explore how you can take information, which has no inherent cost or weight, and create a bunch of services around it that have prices that range from zero to infinity, depending on what people are willing to part with, and so at the zero level, there’s the free electronic text and a free audiobook. You’re actually going to be recording some of the audiobook for me, as I understand?
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