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Nick Bilton, author of the bestseller Hatching Twitter, has inked a deal with Portfolio, an imprint of the Penguin Group, to write a book about the deep web site Silk Road.
The AP has the scoop:
The book is currently untitled and no publication date has been set. Authorities have said Silk Road’s San Francisco operator generated more than $1 billion in illicit business from 2011 until the website was shut down in 2013.
Bilton tweeted the news, revealing that 20th Century Fox has acquired rights to a Silk Road film based on the book.
I have some news. I'm writing The Silk Road book, which has also been optioned as a movie by 20th Century Fox: http://t.co/LTLWfy7Jzg
— Nick Bilton (@nickbilton) January 26, 2015
Author and journalist Nick Bilton wrote a New York Times essay about the ethics of taking smartphone photos of books, explaining how he used his cell phone camera inside a Barnes & Noble recently.
Here’s more from the essay: “As we lobbed the books back and forth, sharing kitchen layouts and hardwood floor textures, we snapped a dozen pictures of book pages with our iPhones. We wanted to share them later with our contractor. After a couple of hours of this, we placed the books back on the shelf and went home, without buying a thing.”
What do you think? Should bookstore customers be able to photograph book pages? How about library patrons?
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