>> Can a story make a cheapo thrift store object significant? Read Significant Objects, where creative writers pen a short story about a very cheap, seemingly insignificant object — creating detailed tales full of false reminiscences and nostalgia — actually bought at a thrift store for a few bucks tops. Then you can buy said objects on eBay, if they seem significant enough to you post-read.

Proceeds from the sales go to the writers themselves — and the high bidders also get a copy of their stories. To the right’s one of the objects, whose story begins withh “Only now do I feel free to tell my part in the theft of the famed Light of the East diamond from the home of Roscoe and Mindy Furgarden in Beverly Hills in the summer of 1979….” (via Murketing)

>> Will free be the price of the future? Wired magazine editor in chief Chris Anderson’s gonna let you read his new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price for free, sort of. Free‘s condition’s that you must read it online on Scribd sometime before Aug. 10, after which Free will no longer be free by any definition (via LAT Technology).

>> Want a book that’s really free? After the entire 200-copy run sold out in just 8 hours, the creative commons-licensed New Liberal Arts is now available free for infinity via PDF download. The idea behind the book: “to collectively identify and explore twenty-first-century ways of doing the liberal arts.”

Photo via Significant Objects

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