Book Embargo

As most of you have gathered by my recent flurry on Infected, I’m a bit excited about it.

But beyond my advance that I got, there was the audio, and for a short time, there will be a PDF available for download. But what is interesting is that Itunes is not very happy with getting all of Scott’s word, and there have been troubles for others too. (Mine might be because the computer goes to sleep and shuts off Itunes…)

A really interesting blog post at BoingBoing.net. I enjoyed the post and *most* of the comments. But it does raise interesting questions for publishing. Scott has basically proven that if you let people download it, they WILL read it (and therefore get excited enough to buy it hopefully), but by limiting the download time, and especially before the book is even OUT, how can they keep track of the numbers of people who are actually getting to the book.

I don’t know, but it will be interesting to watch! In the meantime, go find your pdf of Infected if you want it, buy it anyway on April 1st, and listen to his other stuff too

Remember, Scott Sigler.com for all your Junkie Cravings.

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One of the newer trends in books is that of the E-book. I like the feel of books, the weight, the smell, so it will be a while before I switch to an E-book. For those of you who like and use them, head over to Tor.

From /.
“Tor Books is launching a new site and running a campaign in which they are giving away e-books (free as in beer) until the site goes live. To get in on the deal, fill out the form at their site, and each week you will receive a newsletter containing links to download a new book. The first two books are Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson followed by Old Man’s War by John Scalzi. Scalzi’s site says: ‘My understanding is that they don’t have DRM on them. Or at least, mine isn’t supposed to have, and I don’t think they’re planning mine to be special in that regard.’”

It is an interesting idea. Apparently, Baen books is also doing free e-books online. You can find more information on that publisher at their Webscription page. If you like E-books, then you will love FREE E-books.

And to pimp the one who gave me this info, check out Callblog, my boyfriend’s blog.

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