Cory Doctorow’s third novel on the Net without DRM

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By David Rothman

Cory Doctorow‘s third novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, is now on the Net for free without DRM. Naturally he’d like you to buy the paper version if you can afford it. Formats range from HTML to PDF and eBookwise and Palm-related fomats, among others–in fact, even iPOD and Sony PSP versions. Would that all authors had hacker friends to help ‘em cope with the Tower of eBabel!

Summary from Publisher’s Weekly:

“It’s only natural that Alan, the broadminded hero of Doctorow’s fresh, unconventional SF novel, is willing to help everybody he meets. After all, he’s the product of a mixed marriage (his father is a mountain and his mother is a washing machine), so he knows how much being an outcast can hurt. Alan tries desperately to behave like a human being–or at least like his idealized version of one. He joins a cyber-anarchist’s plot to spread a free wireless Internet through Toronto at the same time he agrees to protect his youngest brothers (members of a set of Russian nesting dolls) from their dead brother who’s now resurrected and bent on revenge.”

Related: Free audio books, in MobileRead.

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