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Here’s a page where I will put links to some fulltext monographs that I’ve found online that might be useful to other scholars as well.

I keep getting links to my biblioblog page from people looking for fulltext downloads of some titles listed in my bibliography. Usually CHMs. I only put legally free texts on this list.

I also own a bunch of these in paper form as well. Content owners: If there’s a problem with linking to these, especially if it’s not legal to do it… then please email me and tell me, you don’t have to sue me. It’s not worth it. I’m a poor student. It won’t make a good example of me to the public. You’ll just look like an anachronistic bully.

There’s no deep links, but links to pages where the file is found. I’m sure you can navigate for yourself. I welcome any additions you may know about. Enjoy!

• Bruce Sterling - (1993) “The Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier” (hackers, crackers, history of the EFF)
• Douglas Rushkoff - (1995) - “Cyberia: Life in the trenches of Cyberspace” (hackers, crackers, early rave culture, early cyberculture, cyberpunk)
• Suelette Dreyfus - (1997) - “Underground: Tales of hacking, madness, and obsession on the electronic frontier” (Hackers, crackers, law enforcement, media accounts - particularly in Australia in the 1980s)
• Richard M Stallman - (2002) - “Free Software, Free Society” (free software, patents, GPL, hackers)
• Steven Poole - (2001) - “Trigger Happy” (history of video games)
• Marc Bousquet and Katherine Wills (eds) (2002)- “Politics of Information” (information age, networks, politics)
• S.N. Dorogovtsev and J.F.F. Mendes -(2003) - “Evolution of Networks: From Biological Nets to the Internet and WWW, ” (complex networks, mathematics, network theory)
• Jo Tacchi and Don Slater - (2003) - “Enthographic Action Research: a user’s handbook ” (ethnography, action research, technology)
• Stadler, Felix (2005) “Open Cultures and the Nature of Networks” [direct link] (network culture)
• Lawrence Lessig - (2005) - “Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity” (creative commons, free culture)
• Lawrence Lessig -”Code (v2.0)” (code, regulation, copyright, law, cc)
• Geert Lovink - “The principle of Notworking” [direct pdf] (critical internet studies, networks)
• Yochai Benkler - (2006) - “The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom ” (networks, economics, politics, history)
• Feller, Shirky, Fitzgerald, et al (eds) - (2006) - “Perspectives on FOSS“
• Francesca da Rimini - “Coding Cultures“
• Hilary Wainwright, Oscar Reyes, et al (eds) - “Networked Politics“
• Fitzgerald, Coates, Lewis (eds)- (2007)- Open Content Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons
• Let’s not forget the fiction of Cory Doctorow over @ his CrapHound.com website.
• There’s a heap more books and a lot more to be found at AltX press so go there for a lot of cool stuff - a lot of dirty net.art manifestos and gritty cyberpunk fiction.

O’Reilly publishing has the Open Book initiative where you can find some good tech and free software/open source sorts of books including:

• Dan Gillmor - (2004) - “We the Media: Grassroots journalism, by the people, for the people“
• Sam Williams - (2001) - “Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman’s Crusade for Free Software“
• Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, Mark Stone, and Brian Behlendorf (eds) - (1999) “Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution” (open source and free software)
• Eric S Raymond’s - “the Cathedral and the Bazaar“. (history of open source as a subgenre of free software, hackers, programming)