Tor started a promotion to advertise it’s new blog or website (or both) a few months ago by giving away a free eBook every week. In an increased effort to draw traffic, Tor has decided to put up download links for every book in its promotion which are good until Sunday.
That’s alot of free [...]

In August, I believe, the long awaited story of ACHERON will be released. In celebration of this, St. Martin’s Press is offering one of the very first Dark-Hunter novels, Seize the Night, in a free e-Book download. You have to give up personal information (not height and weight thank goodness) and in exchange [...]

I remember seeing this on the SB blog a couple days ago and forgot (or was too busy) to blog about it. Julia Spencer-Fleming writes a mystery series featuring Reverend Clare Fergusson and Sherif Russ Van Alstyne. Today was the relase of Spencer-Fleming’s sixth book in the series, I Shall Not [...]

update: this program is through DailyLit. You must sign up with Daily Lit to get the Harlequin book for free.
Harlequin will be offering Kate Walker’s new June Presents title, Spanish Billionaire, Innocent Wife, to their subscribers for free. Beginning June 1st, people can sign up and receive the entire book [...]

Tor started giving away a free ebook version of one of its print publications every week. This week’s book is Touch of Evil by C.T. Adams and Cathy Clamp. (Direct link).  This is one of the books in Tor’s paranormal romance line.
You have to sign up for their newsletter to get the email. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In an interesting move, Adobe is giving away two major pieces of intellectual property away for free. Earlier this year, it released Premiere Express, an online video editor. Available at YouTube (known as YouTube Remixer), MTV.com and Photobucket, the video editor allows you to upload your video and use the program to cut [...]

Cory Doctorow wrote that giving away his books has made him alot of money. He acknowledged that there is no empirical evidence to suggest that giving away books has increased his print sell through numbers but that his books have sold better than other authors at similar points in their careers and have outperformed [...]