Feb 18 2008
Tor to Give Away Free eBooks
Want a free ebook every week from Tor publishing? If you sign up for their newsletter, Tor will provide you the link, every week, to a free ebook that can be downloaded. The first book was Old Man’s War by John Scalzi, the winner of the 2006 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. I’ve not read a Scalzi book but I love his blog, Whatever. My avid following of his blog began in earnest with his Creation Museum visit.
This week’s offering is Through Wolf’s Eyes by Jane Lindskold, another author I’ve not read. What I am saying here? Yes, I am giving over my email address and apparently am willing to be spammed by Tor in exchange for ebooks I might never read. What can I say? I am a total sucker for free books.
Apparently, the free ebook giveaway is a precursor of an introduction of a Tor backed ezine featuring original shorts (fiction and non fiction) and a “lightweight” social networking environment. I wonder whether it could be a central social networking site for all science fiction / fantasy if it is a Tor backed community. I.e., would ACE/Baen/EOS authors be allowed to promote their books to the Tor funded community?
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Feb 18, 2008 @ 14:03:39
Thanks for the heads-up!
Feb 18, 2008 @ 14:19:00
I’ll bite. Thanks for the link!
Feb 18, 2008 @ 14:28:33
I liked the Lindskold, though the series got weaker with each book.
As for the creation museum, we north of the river just try to pretend that it doesn’t exist. Hey, if they can ignore billions of years of evolution, I can ignore a small spot in Kentucky.
Thanks for the link.
Feb 18, 2008 @ 17:15:48
What format do the books come in?
Feb 18, 2008 @ 17:43:39
Yep, I got Brandon Sanderson – Mistborn the other day.
Oh and it is a non-DRM PDF format.
Feb 18, 2008 @ 19:28:48
That Creation Museum post was one of the funniest things I’ve ever read.
I almost cried laughing when I read this:
OMG this totally made me want to read his book!
Feb 18, 2008 @ 20:17:58
Hey Robin, at least they got one thing right: It’s always the mans fault. ;D
Feb 18, 2008 @ 21:12:54
LOL! I guess I should be grateful they didn’t blame it all on Eve — like everyone else does. Although I know there’s an insult to Eve built in there, too (i.e. she was Adam’s little head), so . . .
Feb 18, 2008 @ 22:39:05
I wrote an email and asked but haven’t yet received a response.
Feb 19, 2008 @ 00:02:38
The first free book is Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn, a fantasy with romantic elements. It was quite good.
I think the next free book is Scalzi’s Old Man’s War, which is a fun, fast-paced space opera. IIRC it’s written in first person, a quite unreliable POV (i.e. don’t think Scalzi’s politics are represented in this book). He’s a reliably entertaining author.
I also read Scalzi’s blog every day. Today’s rant on Andrew Burt, who wants to be SFWA’s next president, is priceless. And yeah, his writeup of his visit to the Creation Museum and the contest for funniest captions for his pics was loads of fun.
Feb 19, 2008 @ 16:29:51
Jane, I’ve also yet to receive a response,…
Was it my breath??
Feb 20, 2008 @ 08:04:59
The sign-up has been a bit erratic. It’s been overloaded on occasion to the point where it wasn’t working at all; and when I signed up last week, I think it took three days before I got the email acknowledgement. But I did get my link to a DRM-free pdf of Mistborn shortly after that. I’ve spent too much time staring at my monitor for other purposes this week to try reading it, though.
Feb 22, 2008 @ 05:31:32
I just got the link to John Scalzi’s book. Three formats this time: PDF, HTML & Mobi.
Feb 22, 2008 @ 12:21:27
Yay!! Got mine, too — :)
Feb 22, 2008 @ 16:43:26
Got mine, and read it this afternoon. All of it. I wasn’t planning to even start it today, but I saw one page while I was checking that it had downloaded properly, and it hooked me..
Apr 21, 2008 @ 09:56:43
Thanks for the info, I especially found it interesting, keep the good job you are doing!
May 01, 2008 @ 03:58:24
This is a good move from Tor. Highly appreciated.