Peter Watts Releases Blindsight Under Creative Commons License
By John DeNardo |
Tuesday, December 12th, 2006 at
12:03 am
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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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.
Watts is reporting that support from bloggers is helping sales of his book.
[via Kathryn Cramer]