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Tor Books Is Giving Away E-Books

Posted by kdawson on from the what's-not-to-like dept.

stoolpigeon writes "Tor Books is launching a new site and running a campaign in which they are giving away e-books (free as in beer) until the site goes live. To get in on the deal, fill out the form at their site, and each week you will receive a newsletter containing links to download a new book. The first two books are Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson followed by Old Man's War by John Scalzi. Scalzi's site says: 'My understanding is that they don't have DRM on them. Or at least, mine isn't supposed to have, and I don't think they're planning mine to be special in that regard.'"

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  1. Hey I have no problem to by them by emj · · Score: 3, Informative

    As long as they are DRM free I can buy them! It's such a bitch to use clit everytime I buy and ebook. Do you guys know if there is a cracker for Mobipocket and PDF as well? The problem with Lit is that you have to have Windows to download books, which I don't have.. :-)

  2. Baen Free Library by Nimey · · Score: 5, Informative

    Also see Baen's free library at http://www.baen.com/library/

    Baen will also sometimes include a CD containing many E-books with certain hardbacks. It's made them some money from me, since I was introduced to certain series (1632, March Upcountry, Honor Harrington) via this.

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  3. Read Old man's war (Hugo finalist) by __aailob1448 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I own the book and it's a great read. Nice of Tor and Scalzi to give it away.

  4. Tor is on Webscription by overshoot · · Score: 3, Informative

    Tor has had quite a few titles on WebScription for some time now. Since those are all DRMless, it's not unreasonable to expect that they're over the wibbles.

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  5. Don't worry, it's only a few 1st & 2nd parties by DrSkwid · · Score: 4, Informative

    Macmillan is a privately-owned company, owned by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH, a large German-based company. The company acquired a 70.81 per cent stake in Macmillan in April 1995, and purchased the remaining stake in 1999, at which point the Macmillan family formally ended its 156-year-ownership of the publishing house. Holtzbrinck owns around forty companies as well as Macmillan and is headquartered in Stuttgart. Its interests include book, magazine and newspaper publishers, television and radio companies and new media firms.

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  6. For those looking for more by thisissilly · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Baen CDs (which include some novels not in the Free library) are also legally available online at sites like http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/

  7. Re:Sounds too good to be true... by jhw539 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, authors have found via the Baen free library that giving away their books in e format resulted in increased sales. Not only did they see the obvious benefit of giving away book one of a series resulting in an increase in the sales of books two, three, four... But the sales of the free book also increased. Check out this interesting summary. Hopefully this doesn't really come as a surprise to Slashdotters, who are some of the loudest preachers of this type of market behavior.