Okay. This is a little complicated, but I'm going to make it easy peasy for you.
The prolific author Cory Doctorow is offering, on his website, his hard science fiction book
With a Little Help. I am posting this book on this thread because it is self-published.
The ebook is potentially
free. I say, "potentially" because it is "name-your-own-price." You can download it
without paying one red cent. I will put instructions under "Comments," below, about how to donate to Mr. Doctorow if you so desire.
This book is popular (there are 408 reviews at GoodReads!) and highly rated. It is not as great of a "deal" as most ebooks that I post, because it is very inexpensive ($4.99 Kindle) already.
Title: With a Little Help.
Format: Html, Pdf, ODT, ePub, SST. But there is no Kindle mobi directly from Cory Doctorow's website, apparently. As I mention later, however, the ebook's license allows people to "share it, remix it, and share [their] remixes." Because of that there are many other formats of the ebook around on the Internet. Google it, if you're interested. If you can't find what you want, PM me and I can probably find it for you.
Author(s): Cory Doctorow.
Publisher: CorDoc-Co. Ltd.
Pages: 310.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews (Amazon): 4.6 stars, but from only 11 reviews; 3.84 (408) at GoodReads.
Price: $0.00+.
Price of Kindle Mobi at Amazon if available there: $4.99.
Book Description (Amazon):
With a Little Help is my first serious experiment in self-publishing. I’ve published many novels, short story collections, books of essays and so on with publishers, and it’s all been very good and satisfying and educational and so on, but it seems like it’s time to try something new.
You see, I’ve always released my work under open licenses from the Creative Commons project, so that my readers could share and remix my works. A good number of these readers wanted to know why I didn’t distribute the physical book as well, and see what a writer working on his own could do.
So here we have it. With a Little Help, consists of 12 stories, all reprints except for “Epoch,” which was commissioned by the Ubuntu project‘s Mark Shuttleworth for $10,000 (this being the most expensive option for buying the book — don’t worry, there are cheaper editions).
Comments:
Here's how to donate to Cory Doctorow. Go to
the U.K. Paypal website. Search for "cory@craphound.com". Doctorow states that "As a guide, the average donation to date is $11.75; the smallest was $0.50, and the largest was $200."
Full information about the license mentioned above: the "downloads are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license, which lets you share it, remix it, and share your remixes, provided that you do so on a noncommercial basis." The ebook is DRM-Free.
URLs:
Html.
Pdf.
ODT (Word Online).
EPub.
SST.