Free ebooks offered by publishers
Jun. 11th, 2009 12:10 pmI'm subscribed to newsletters sent out by several publishing houses and sometimes they include link to free ebooks in the newsletter. Today I received one such email, offering mostly first books in a series. Baen Books has been doing that for years, I believe, and the reasoning is that, if you offer the first book for free, readers might like it enough to buy the other books in a series.
Here's a link for you: Suvudu Free Library. It has a couple of Star Wars books,
kayim will probably be interested in those.
It's a very sound reasoning, except when you live where I live. I can't even begin to describe the trouble you go through if you want to buy something online, and you don't have a credit card, or your credit card is not one of the supported ones. If the seller doesn't accept any other form of payment, you're stuck with asking friends with an appropriate credit card to do some shopping for you, and you'll cover the expenses. But that gets old pretty quickly, and you run out of friends to ask. Meh.
[Maybe it's a good thing, I don't know, cause I'd probably spend all my pay on books. :) ]
Here's a link for you: Suvudu Free Library. It has a couple of Star Wars books,
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It's a very sound reasoning, except when you live where I live. I can't even begin to describe the trouble you go through if you want to buy something online, and you don't have a credit card, or your credit card is not one of the supported ones. If the seller doesn't accept any other form of payment, you're stuck with asking friends with an appropriate credit card to do some shopping for you, and you'll cover the expenses. But that gets old pretty quickly, and you run out of friends to ask. Meh.
[Maybe it's a good thing, I don't know, cause I'd probably spend all my pay on books. :) ]