It seems that we are beginning to trip over increasingly enlightened authors on the digital frontiers here at Pan Macmillan. Just as we are poised to publish the the seventh novel in David Hewson’s beguilingly atmospheric and addictive Rome series, Dante’s Numbers, David has shrewdly agreed to an experiment to give away the first of his novels featuring the popular detective, Nic Costa, as an unDRM’d ebook.
You can download the ebook from Scribd
Since yesterday it’s been downloaded over 3000 times. The ebook will cease to be available as a free download after October 15th, 2008. Kudos to David and good luck to him!
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Cool – always good to see more non-drm ebook fiction available.
On another note – not directly related – I purchased 3 ebooks in the 3 for 2 deal on the Pan McMillian. All good – no DRM, reading happily on my Sony reader. Then today I received a receipt/despatch note in the post. I thought that was quite quaint – especially as I live in Tokyo ! Anyway – keep up the good work. Looking forward to seein
Cool – always good to see more non-drm ebook fiction available.
On another note – not directly related – I purchased 3 ebooks in the 3 for 2 deal on the Pan McMillian. All good – no DRM, reading happily on my Sony reader. Then today I received a receipt/despatch note in the post. I thought that was quite quaint – especially as I live in Tokyo ! Anyway – keep up the good work. Looking forward to seeing more drm-free sci-fi on the site.
The crank has linked to you.
http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/nearly-free-ebook-a-season-for-the-dead/
I still think you’re Suits.
Would it be possible to get A Season for the Dead in a format other then PDF that keeps the formatting? I would like to read it in a format that reflows. PDF does not reflow. Thanks.
Jon
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