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Three writers’ defense of free e-books—plus where to get freebies, including a Nobel Prize winner’s novel in progress

April 24, 2007 | 11:28 am

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By David Rothman

Elfriede Jelinek Tobias Buckell, John Scalzi and Charles Stross have defended free e-books as part of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day. Use the last link to get a list of recently released free texts from various authors.

Also check out the eBook Community list‘s threads on source of e-books, free and paid, and the “Webscab” debate.

Free chapters from Nobel Prize winner’s e-novel in progress

Meanwhile, for free, if you know German, you can read the first several chapters of a novel by Elfriede Jelinek (photo), winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize for literature. Links appear on her site. For a more details in English, go here. Also see item on Book People’s list.

Housekeeping: Later today I’ll run the post on a venerable publisher’s sophisticated way to promote books online—a concept applicable to both E and P.

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Dusk Peterson says:

April 27, 2007 at 9:26 pm

In case you’re interested, I’ve started a directory of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day offerings. So far, I’ve only listed the ones that were announced at the LiveJournal blog for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, but I’ll continue to update the site.

http://duskpeterson.com/technopeasant/

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Three writers’ defense of free e-books—plus where to get freebies, including a Nobel Prize winner’s novel in progress

April 24, 2007 | 11:28 am

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