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Wil Wheaton releases ‘Sunken Treasures’ in DRM-free PDF
February 21, 2009 | 6:31 pm
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By Chris Meadows
After consulting with his followers on Twitter, Wil Wheaton has just released his latest book, Sunken Treasures, in DRM-free PDF format via print-on-demand publisher Lulu. Although the print version of the book is $13 (or $15 for the international version), the downloadable PDF is only $5.
Wheaton also noted in Twitter that he had received “[m]any questions about other formats for digital versions of my books. Short answer: all I can do at the moment on my own is PDF.”
An hour after posting the sale link, Wheaton tweeted that he was surprised and impressed by the early response to the book: "This is unreal. The PDF sales of Sunken Treasure in the last hour are over 1/5 of the total print sales in the last 28 days." He added, to those who bought the book, "You’re part of something very exciting and encouraging to me right now. Thank you!"
Wheaton is to be commended for releasing his book without DRM and at a reasonably low price point for an electronic format. I hope that he will sometime be able to release it in other formats more suited to portable devices such as the iPhone.
Update: Wheaton’s blog entry on the sale e-book.
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Comments:
Mobipocket Creator is free, eReader Studio $35, Calibre is free. It’s not too hard to find ways to convert your books to flowable digital formats.
Welcome to the world of publishing, Will. And best of luck to you.
Rob Preece
Publisher, http://www.BooksForABuck.com
“It’s not too hard to find ways to convert your books to flowable digital formats.”
The PDF almost always formats poorly after conversion. There are probably some exceptions, but with other content available in native reflowable formats, why bother. Read something else.