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Originally Posted by Maggie-Me
I'll have to check out BookViewCafé, never heard of them
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Do, especially if you like SF/fantasy (also a few mystery, historical, romance, but mainly sf/f).
BVC are a loosely-affiliated group of established midlist print authors who've gotten together to offer their rights-reverted backlist books on pretty much the same terms that Baen's Webscription does: DRM-free, MultiFormat, online reading, re-downloadable at any time, priced at $4.99 or less for individual titles, omnibus bundles available.
They've even got a "free library" of short stories and novellas that you can read to sample the authors' works, and even offer some of the novels as serialized web chapters (and encourage you to buy the e-reader version for portable reading). And they also re-sell through Smashwords and thence to Kobo, so you can use discount coupons on their books if they're participating in a particular sale (they did a few giveaway/% off certain titles during Read an E-book Week this March).
Currently, they're offering a time-limited promotional free download of Vonda M. McIntyre's Starfarers (published in the 80s by Ace, I think). L
inking to the post in the Deals forum, because apparently there's a margin display issue with the ePub and people gave advice on how to fix it.
It's a great project and I hope more authors/publishers will get together to do something like this (or just plain join up to offer stuff at BVC or Baen's Webscriptions).