Apr 8 2008
A free magazine called Bit-O-Lit will be available to DC Commuters every other Monday. The magazine will feature excerpts of books from YA to thrillers to non fiction. The excerpts will be on a pay basis, meaning the publishers will have to pay for the excerpts that are included. The initial print run is 20,000(…)
Mar 21 2008
NPR this morning discussed the fake memoir and the online previews of books. The acclaimed but fake memoir of Margaret B. Jones aka Peggy Seltzer came under attack by writers who actually did live the gang life. Needless to say, the writers feel disrespected by Seltzer’s attempt to profit off of their lives. But more(…)
Mar 9 2008
Free ebooks are all the rage these days. Oprah gave away over a million copies of Suze Orman’s, Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny and became the #2 bestseller in the nonfiction/general category. Other publishers are toying with the free ebook giveaway. Tor is giving a free book away a week(…)
Mar 3 2008
More and more artists, be they writers or musicians, are giving away their product for free in digital form, in hopes of driving physical sales. (Look at the related articles on the right to see more examples) Nine Inch Nails is the latest to jump on this bandwagon. Their newest album ‘Ghosts I-IV’ and its(…)
Feb 28 2008
Maybe Oprah inspired the industry or maybe Cory Doctorow and Baen Publishing’s long maintained message is finally breaking through, but the free keeps piling up. This time its Random House who is giving away Beautiful Children, a New York Times bestseller. You don’t even have to give your name or email address away. Just click(…)
Feb 18 2008
moar humorous pics The news recently has been all about free ebooks lately, mostly stirred by Oprah’s Valentine’s Day gift of Suze Orman’s bestselling book, Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny. More than 1 million copies of the books were downloaded. The news reports have been mostly positive as Yahoo stated(…)
Feb 18 2008
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.(…)
Feb 14 2008
Oprah is offering a free copy of Suze Orman’s Women & Money in PDF form. This offer is only good until 8/7c of February 14th. I guess this is Oprah’s Valentine to you. Or part of her distance learning course to teach you to be a better you. Via SBTB. Send to Kindle
Jan 25 2008
The Atlantic Monthly is following a trend of print media giving away their online content for free. Earlier this week, the archives and web site dropped the subscriber only features and is now freely available. The Wall Street Journal can’t be far behind. Via Teleread. Send to Kindle
Jan 18 2008
This special guest review is from author Sherry Thomas. You’ll want to read the entire thing down to the end because Sherry and I are sponsoring a pay it forward Bettie Sharpe giveaway. You see, Bettie Sharpe gave away a fantastic retelling of the Cinderella story. Only we got it in drips and drabs, one(…)
Dec 4 2007
Image Source: H.G. What has Rin, a preschool teacher in Japan, done that thousands of authors, both in print and aspiring, haven’t? Sold 400,000 copies of a hardcover book that contains a story she gave away for free. Rin (a pseudonym) writes books via her cellular phone. Her audience is primarily the youth who check(…)
Nov 8 2007
With a cover that is good enough for New York, Bettie Sharpe offers up a free novella told in serial form at the website of author, Dionne Galace. The contents live up to the cover and then some. I know that there are editors that read this blog. Please don’t trample each other over in(…)
Oct 19 2007
The Man Booker Prize organization is in negotiations with publishers to make the six shortlisted titles available on the internet for FREE. Jonathan Taylor, chairman of The Booker Prize Foundation, said that the details need to be hammered out but the intent is to digitize each book and make them available for anyone in the(…)
Sep 25 2007
Rupert Murdoch consummated a deal to buy Dow Jones & Co for $5.6 billion and now is urging the board to make the online Journal free. The Wall Street Journal currently charges $99 and is the only major news site that has an online fee now that the New York Times has eliminated the subscription(…)
Sep 20 2007
NBC had a public breakup with iTunes, moved to Amazon, and some speculated it was due to NBC being unhappy with pricing. But in a surprise move, NBC announced that it will start offering free rentals of its TV shows. The “free” will be subsidized by ads and is limited in time, meaning after 7(…)
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