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As far as I know, all of Doctorow's books are on his website for free download anyway. E.g. here is Content... https://craphound.com/content/download/ https:/

As far as I know, all of Doctorow's books are on his website for free download anyway. E.g. here is Content... https://craphound.com/content/download/ https://craphound.com/content/download/ DAOITMK is here: https://craphound.com/category/down/ https://craphound.com/category/down/

doctor_eval 3y ago
How cool to see Plucker in that list. Something I started in the 90s.
mkl 3y ago
I think I remember reading a blog post explaining why one was not free, but I can't find it now. There's a reference to it here: https://old.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/rub7ff/is_corey_doctorow_no_longer_offering_free/ https://old.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/rub7ff/is_corey_do...
- ghaff 3y ago
  Typical commercial publishing contracts, you can't just stick the book up online for free.
  - mkl 3y ago
    But up to that point, Doctorow had custom contracts where he could put the books online for free.
Wowfunhappy 3y ago
I don't think they're all there, e.g. https://craphound.com/category/redteamblues/ https://craphound.com/category/redteamblues/
- lproven 3y ago
  Don't know. Maybe it's too new?
dochtman 3y ago
I don’t think the newer ones (like Walkaway) are Free like the early ones?
- lproven 3y ago
  Looks like that could be the case, yes. Maybe his publishers changed their minds. I know he and Charlie Stross had great difficulty getting Charlie's publishers to agree to a free ebook of Rapture of the Nerds. It looks like there was briefly a giveaway of Walkaway and as a result it's on the Internet Archive, but I've not checked it.
  - garrisonhh 3y ago
    Regardless, you can easily find the ebook online which Cory Doctorow won't have any problem with
totetsu 3y ago
Wow every format imaginable. Even the ebook as gba rom
- matt-attack 3y ago
  Apple Newton?? Curious though, is there a way to get it on an iPhone in the built in Books app?
  - jilX 3y ago
    EPUB format, DAOITMK was listed as “for Stanza”.
    - totetsu 3y ago
      this? https://github.com/stanfordnlp/stanza https://github.com/stanfordnlp/stanza
idlewords 3y ago
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doctor_eval 3y ago

How cool to see Plucker in that list. Something I started in the 90s.

mkl 3y ago

I think I remember reading a blog post explaining why one was not free, but I can't find it now. There's a reference to it here: https://old.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/rub7ff/is_corey_doctorow_no_longer_offering_free/ https://old.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/rub7ff/is_corey_do...

ghaff 3y ago
Typical commercial publishing contracts, you can't just stick the book up online for free.
- mkl 3y ago
  But up to that point, Doctorow had custom contracts where he could put the books online for free.

Wowfunhappy 3y ago

I don't think they're all there, e.g. https://craphound.com/category/redteamblues/ https://craphound.com/category/redteamblues/

lproven 3y ago
Don't know. Maybe it's too new?

dochtman 3y ago

I don’t think the newer ones (like Walkaway) are Free like the early ones?

lproven 3y ago
Looks like that could be the case, yes. Maybe his publishers changed their minds. I know he and Charlie Stross had great difficulty getting Charlie's publishers to agree to a free ebook of Rapture of the Nerds. It looks like there was briefly a giveaway of Walkaway and as a result it's on the Internet Archive, but I've not checked it.
- garrisonhh 3y ago
  Regardless, you can easily find the ebook online which Cory Doctorow won't have any problem with

totetsu 3y ago

Wow every format imaginable. Even the ebook as gba rom

matt-attack 3y ago
Apple Newton?? Curious though, is there a way to get it on an iPhone in the built in Books app?
- jilX 3y ago
  EPUB format, DAOITMK was listed as “for Stanza”.
  - totetsu 3y ago
    this? https://github.com/stanfordnlp/stanza https://github.com/stanfordnlp/stanza

idlewords 3y ago

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