Humble eBook Bundle Lets You Pay What You Want For eBooks

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.

Comments

I'm a gamer at heart

[Gerinych]

Throw in some Steam achievements and you got yourself a deal.

Books worth more than games

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Books worth more than games

[Quirkz]

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.

Stranger Things Happen

[bheerssen]

I bought Kelly Link's Stranger Things Happen on dead tree media a while back, and I thought it was fantastic. This bundle is worth it for that title alone.

Re:Pay what you want? Not quite.

[mrchaotica]

Let's see, I like Arthur C. Clarke, so I'll pay $20.01: "2 0 . 0 !" (accidental shift+1)

Oops, now my account is overdrawn by $2.3 * 10 ^ 18...