I may be crazy, but I hope not stupid. I was also tired, and forgot to credit the person who volunteered to help proof this big honking manuscript and then battle it through the many conversions to create the multi-format offering. Thanks, Ann! (I have updated the first post with the note. I
knew there was something I was leaving out.)
As for crazy or not crazy, I have decided to grab the bull by the horns on this ebook business. I now have 6 books up for free download, and I've been doing pretty fair street-musician's business with people dropping in tips. More importantly, I've acquainted a whole lot of new readers with my work, and I hope
that meme will spread and translate to book sales in the long run. And if not, well, I still will have picked up new readers, and not lost anything. (Except sleep.)
By the middle of May, barring delays, I should have 9 more titles up for sale in all the usual places--though
fictionwise may be the only one offering them multi-format, DRM-free (oh, and I hope
webscriptions, too, though that will likely take longer)--so we'll have a chance to test the proposition that ebooks will sell when offered without DRM (hint hint). In the meantime,
Eternity's End will be the only free "Star Rigger" book, so have at it!
Just one book will be left
not available as an ebook, and that's
Roger Zelazny's Alien Speedway: Clypsis. I'm working on it, but the rights situation is complicated on that one.