Here's a brief excerpt from the book:<p><a href="http://byliner.com/lawrence-lessig/stories/one-way-forward-excerpt" rel="nofollow">http://byliner.com/lawrence-lessig/stories/one-way-forward-e...</a><p>If you're looking for a DRM-free version, we made that available via Apple's iBookstore and Google's eBookstore (now known as Google Play). A print-on-demand version is available via Blurb.com. All of these buying options are reachable from the book's page on Byliner:<p><a href="http://byliner.com/originals/one-way-forward" rel="nofollow">http://byliner.com/originals/one-way-forward</a><p>One aspect of Byliner that's interesting (we hope) is the ability for authors to either update their stories, or provide detail behind their stories. A good example is Jon Krakauer's Three Cups of Deceit. In the months since its publication Jon has added 20,000 words of updates to his story:<p><a href="http://byliner.com/jon-krakauer/stories/excerpt-three-cups-of-deceit#update-13" rel="nofollow">http://byliner.com/jon-krakauer/stories/excerpt-three-cups-o...</a><p>Most of our authors continue to evolve their stories after publication, to the benefit of readers. We hope that Professor Lessig does the same with One Way Forward, which we were very proud to publish.
The story link is to a blog for discussing revisions the book. The revised book comes out in the fall and will be available at the story link. Until then you need to actually buy the book. Here is the link to buy the actual book:<p><a href="http://byliner.com/originals/one-way-forward" rel="nofollow">http://byliner.com/originals/one-way-forward</a>
I haven't read his previous book, "Republic, Lost", but I saw the 1 hour speech at Google from last year, that was based on it, and it was great. He explains how the Government ended up having a relationship with corporations instead of "the people", and what is needed to solve this (almost unsolvable) problem.<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik1AK56FtVc" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik1AK56FtVc</a>
No offense to Prof. Lessig - but he's sort of like someone trying to restore the Roman Republic in the age of Nero.<p>The reality of Washington is that politics (ie, democracy) matters a little, but not very much:<p><a href="http://foseti.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/on-government-employment/" rel="nofollow">http://foseti.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/on-government-employm...</a><p>If politics has negligible power over government, electorates have negligible power over government. So why do we need to "get money out of politics?" The reality of Washington is (IMHO) that voters could elect a President and Congress as pure and holy as the Dalai Lama, and it wouldn't matter at all - because they'd have about the same real power (over the permanent government) as the Dalai Lama.<p>Lessig is yanking with all his weight on a wheel that isn't connected to the rudder. If there's any rudder at all...