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Humble eBook Bundle Lets You Pay What You Want For eBooks

Posted by Soulskill on from the everybody-needs-books dept.

Following on the success of the various Humble Bundles for DRM-free video games, the organization has just launched its first Humble eBook Bundle. It includes Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow, Pump Six by Paolo Bacigalupi, Zoo City by Lauren Beukes, Invasion by Mercedes Lackey, Stranger Things Happen, and Magic for Beginners, both by Kelly Link. If you choose to pay more than the average (about $11 at this writing), you also get Old Man's War by John Scalzi, and Signal to Noise, by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean. The books are available in PDF, MOBI, and ePub formats, without DRM. As with all the Humble Bundles, you can choose how much you'd like to pay, and how the proceeds are split between any of the authors and/or among three charities.

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  1. Sure, why not by Sparton · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've been needing some good locally-saved reading material in between reading new 40K rules and my fantasy author of choice. I'm willing to back this on spec and hopefully it'll take off (maybe with certain bundles focused on certain types of books, such as sci-fi, or psychology).

  2. Books worth more than games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seems that book bundles are valued 50% higher than game bundles... nowhere near the same quantity sold yet, though :(

    1. Re:Books worth more than games by Quirkz · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Linux gamers intentionally pay more to skew the average, in order to encourage more developers to make more Linux games. (Including, I understand, a few five-figure donators who *really* pushed up the average.) There's no such incentive to encourage Linux-friendly eBooks.

      --
      The Quirkz Handbook of Self-Improvement for People Who Are Already Pretty Okay
  3. Kelly Link by bWareiWare.co.uk · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just to say Kelly Link's are more then just DRM free, they are CC BY-NC-SA:

    http://smallbeerpress.com/wp-content/uploads/Kelly_Link_Magic_for.htm
    http://smallbeerpress.com/wp-content/uploads/Kelly_Link_Stranger_Things.htm

    And Cory Doctorow's is at least CC BY-NC-ND:
    http://craphound.com/pc/Cory_Doctorow_-_Pirate_Cinema.html

  4. Re:Losing the roots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Take a look at http://storybundle.com/ if that's what you're interested in.