SF author Peter Watts has released his recent acclaimed novel Blindsight under a Creative Commons license. (See SF Signal review.) He has also put up alternate covers with permission of the artist. Watts also includes a bunch of book extras on the Blindsight page.
This is similar to last year's move of putting his novel Starfish under CCL.
[via BoingBoing]
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Posted by John DeNardo at Tuesday December 12, 2006 at 12:03 AM
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The annoying thing being that he suspects the book may never get more prints, so even people who like won't be able to find the not-extremely-expensive version...
Giving a free on-line copy to promote sales is a good thing. Giving a free on-line copy because there won't be any sales... not so good.
Posted by Yaron on Wednesday December 13, 2006 at 11:53 AM at 11:53 AM
Watts is reporting that support from bloggers is helping sales of his book.
[via Kathryn Cramer]
Posted by John on Sunday December 17, 2006 at 10:04 PM at 10:04 PM