Hmm....Refuge looks like it could be my kind of thing. I don't mind paying $5, that's cheap! To be honest I don't think they should have donationware books, only because for a lot of people, their list of to-be-read books are so long that by the time they get to it they either forget to donate or they go back to the website and it's maybe changed.
Say what we want about Sony but I like how they do their freebies. For this one month the book is free. After that we will charge you X amount of dollars. A lot of time the free book they offer is the first to a series; there have been plenty of authors I've found and don't normally read but with that first free book I have purchased the entire series (one consisting of 7 books). But I didn't read those books for a couple of months.
I don't know, it just seems the donationware system is incredibly flawed from what I've understood of it. I think we tend to appreciate things more when they are in limited supply or when they are only offered for a limited time.
Looks like I found a new author anyway, lol!
