John Buckman's home page I'm an Internet entrepreneur. I like founding companies that cause some heck and maybe (perhaps) have a chance at some sort of social benefit. I am the founder/CEO of Magnatune.com, an Internet record label known for its pro-artist, pro-consumer, anti-music-Industry stance summed up in its slogan: "We are not evil." I created and run BookMooch.com, an online community for the exchange of used books. People in 91 countries use it to exchange over a million books a year. I'm active in the Free Culture movement and serve on the boards of the EFF (USA) and the Open Rights Group (UK). In the late 1990's I founded Lyris, an email management software company, which grew to a respectable size, and which I sold in 2005. I've been profiled by Forbes, Inc. Magazine, and The Economist. I used to be a minor celebrity. Now I'm just minor. I live both in the San Francisco Bay Area and in London, England and grew up in Paris. I travel quite a bit (see my dopplr profile). I'm sort of finished with my hyper-alpha-salesguy-American thing and now prefer to just meet interesting people, enjoy life and work on useful things. My Wikipedia page has the most up-to-date information about me. Back when I was young & had an aggressively self-promoting personality, there was a lot of material on this home page. It has not been updated since 2001 but if you're nonetheless looking for it, you can find the old home page here. You can email me through BookMooch. (photo credit Joi Ito, CC by v2)