Non sempre il gratis su Internet è sinonimo di illegalità. A volte può essere utilizzato come arma di marketing e di promozione o come strumento innovativo per rendere più diretto e immediato il rapporto tra gli autori di un’opera e il pubblico. E’ il caso di La strategia dell’ariete e Monocromatica, due romanzi recentemente distribuiti sia in libreria (a pagamento) che sul Web (gratis).

In order to make these renewal records more accessible, Stanford has created this searchable database. Building on the work done by Project Gutenberg to transcribe the 1950-1977 renewals, and on early conversion efforts by Michael Lesk, we have converted the published renewal announcements to machine-readable form, and combined them with the renewals for later years made available on the Copyright Office’s website.

Today, once again, TV is evolving into something new and hardly recognizable to generations raised on its earlier incarnations. The structured world of analog over-the-air programming that brought American families together in the living room has been shattered. In its place has emerged a new form of unbounded digital video, endlessly permeable and reprogrammable.

Bigfoot: living creature, or myth? Join your host Peter Graves, as he attempts to answer that question in The Mysterious Monsters – one of the most fascinating documentaries ever filmed. You’ll hear eyewitness accounts from ordinary people who have encountered the legendary monster… and you’ll see them recall their tales while under hypnosis, or attached to a lie detectors.

There’s more than one theory about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, so why not have more than one museum devoted to it as well? Most JFK buffs are familiar with the Sixth Floor Museum housed in the former Texas School Book Depository, which recounts all those boring “mainstream” details of the late president’s life leading up to his death at the hands of Lee Harvey Oswald.