04-28-2008, 09:22 AM | #1 |
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10 Free E-books from Dragon Moon Press
Dragon Moon Press is offering 10 free novels as PDF downloads from their blog. If any of you are interested in small press, this should be interesting.
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04-28-2008, 10:31 AM | #2 |
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The better half likes this stuff, I snagged them for her. Thanks
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04-28-2008, 03:59 PM | #3 |
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A whole pile of new authors to try out! Cool, thanks for the link
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04-28-2008, 06:52 PM | #5 |
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Same here. I wrote to the publisher at Dragon Moon about availability in other formats and the response was that free versions are only in PDF but that other formats are available at Fictionwise. I am interested in a couple of their titles, but I'm not willing to gamble on the quality of the authors/press without trying one of the books first. Seems shortsighted to me but I do understand the reluctance to give away product.
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There are a few of these small pubs that sell PDFs direct, but use Fictionwise multiformat to make other formats available. I know Imajinn does it that way too, so do some others I just can't think of who right now.
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Hmm, I can only open four of the ten books: The two by Oliver, and those by Henderson and Ward. I get errors on all the others. :-(
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The way they structured the pdf's is quite annoying actually.
They open in full screen mode, one crashed my pc - happens occasionally with large pdf's that I open in Firefox for some reason - , it's really a lot of trouble for the end-user - not worth the time unless you really want one of those books. Which I don't. But for sampling, I think it is exactly the wrong way to do it. Either offer a straight pdf download, or offer half the text in html or prc, and ask for payment for the rest... |
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these "free" books certainly aren't short on advertising, every page !
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