Nearly-Free eBook: A Season For The Dead

From the Pan Macmillan cultists who claim they are Not Suits (buried somewhere in Comments -- either here or at TeleRead -- where I cannot find it!): Free and fabulous

It seems that we are beginning to trip over increasingly enlightened authors on the digital frontiers here at Pan Macmillan. Just as we are poised to publish the the seventh novel in David Hewson’s beguilingly atmospheric and addictive Rome series, Dante’s Numbers, David has shrewdly agreed to an experiment to give away the first of his novels featuring the popular detective, Nic Costa, as an unDRM’d ebook.

Emphasis added by me.

Usually these offers involve nothing more than hitting a link and then a second link for a Save As...

Not so here.

It's at Scribd.

Which, if you don't already have an account, will demand you damn well get one before you can haz free.

And once that's done, you might not be able to do a Save As... on the PDF link (there's also a TXT link, but what freak would want that?). Instead, you'll have to wait for your browser to launch Adobe Acrobat in a tab. And then you can Save to disk -- but first you must rename the file because it's apparently in binary Martian.

So that's why I call this one Nearly-Free.

And if you couldn't already tell, it's now on my hard drive, in my new Electronic Backlog (not to be confused with my old Endless Backlog of print).

Thanks, Non Suits at Pan Mac. I hope the Real Suits appreciate your future-forward thinking.