Update Your Shelf: BitLit Offers Access To Ebook Versions of Books You Own

Posted by timothy on Saturday June 28, 2014 @09:37AM from the ink-is-kind-of-a-committment dept.

First time accepted submitter Peter Hudson (3717535) writes Cory Doctorow writes on boingboing.net "BitLit works with publishers to get you free or discounted access to digital copies of books you own in print: you use the free app for Android and iOS to take a picture of the book's copyright page with your name printed in ink, and the publisher unlocks a free or discounted ebook version. None of the Big Five publishers participate as yet, but indies like O'Reilly, Berrett-Koehler, Red Wheel Weiser, Other Press, Greystone, Coach House, Triumph, Angry Robot, Chicago Review, Dundurn, and PM Press (publishers of my book The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow) are all in."

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Re:Physical books are great by Anonymous Coward · 2014-06-28 21:00 · Score: 0, Troll

"With as much as new books cost,"
What the hell does that even mean? Oh, wait - you're AMERICAN, so bastardising the English language is par for the course for you... You idiot.
I think your tiny, AMERICAN brain meant to write; "With books costing as much as they do". You fucking idiot.