In this segment John Buckman talks about his experience with Magnatune and Bookmooch.

Two areas Content Developers may find particularly interesting are John’s insights into scale and his concise breakdown of the freemium model.

Other segments in the doc series include a talk with Timo Hannay from Nature Magazine about bringing an open source philosophy to the publication of scientific journals and a visit with Tom Reynolds, a London Ambulance Service E.M.T. who shares his experience publishing his book Blood, Sweat and Tea and blog Random Acts of Reality.

via BookMooch Blog

So what’s a conscientious online publisher to do?

The good news is that the solution is pretty straight forward. Rather than typing (c) in your publishing platform, you can type in the following six characters where you want your © symbol placed:

That is the HTML code for the © sign. When your blog post is published it will turn that into this –

©.

And if that solution doesn’t appeal to you for some reason, you can always simply copy and paste an already rendered © symbol from another post, like this one.

©

When looking into how to copyright your work also be sure and consider publishing your work under a Creative Commons license. If you go that increasingly popular route you can communicate your copyright terms with one of their images.