This is a guy that always gets my money no matter what book he puts out. Treating your readers decently and going against Big Corp(TM) in terms of DRM and customers freedom has something to do with it.
He suggests in the foreword that you donate copies to schools - you can do so at http://craphound.com/ftw/donate/. I think that's a great idea. More info is available in the actual text as to why and how.
Cory Doctorow's Craphound podcast has a reading from the book (not this weeks episode I don't think - but fairly recent - should still be in the feed). It's really worth listening to especially if you don't have time to read the book itself in the immediate future.
I tried to race the release of FTW with my reading of Makers. I don't remember why I stopped reading it. (Maybe the part of the debacle of New works movement was too much for me) but I failed. I am still in the middle of Maker and now also in the middle of a dilemma should I read Makers, ftw or my Math text book for the finals??
I'm looking forward to reading this, but I had a similar experience reading Makers. The second and third acts felt too contrived, and I really struggled to finish it. The said, the first third is wonderful, and the short story Print Crime is worth looking for.
Read the Math textbook or ftw. Makers is by a large margin the worst thing I've read by Cory Doctorow. Distraction by Bruce Sterling covered a great many of the same the same themes first and better.
