It's less common but hardly unprecedented. 1. Charles Stross (one of the four examples above) used to point readers to BitTorrent for his free book downloads:

It's less common but hardly unprecedented. 1. Charles Stross (one of the four examples above) used to point readers to BitTorrent for his free book downloads: http://web.archive.org/web/20090514034859/http://www.antipope.org/charlie/accelerando/ http://web.archive.org/web/20090514034859/http://www.antipop... (And he complains about automated scanners flagging legit files as copyright violations: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/11/imbeciles.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/11/imbecile... ) 2. Unni Drougge use The Pirate bay to post a torrent of an audio version of her best-selling novel: http://www.p2p-blog.com/item-1029.html http://www.p2p-blog.com/item-1029.html 3. Larry Lessig releases his book "Free Culture" as a torrent: http://lessig.org/blog/2004/03/free_culture_is.html http://lessig.org/blog/2004/03/free_culture_is.html (And of course, a USC student had his network account disabled for downloading this completely legal torrent: http://boingboing.net/2006/08/25/universities-put-hol.html http://boingboing.net/2006/08/25/universities-put-hol.html ) 4. Dan Morrill posts a torrent link to his book about selling e-books: http://torrentfreak.com/my-book-please-081017/ http://torrentfreak.com/my-book-please-081017/ 5. Megan Lisa Jones self-publishes a novel through BitTorrent: http://ibla.us/2011/content/thoughts-on-the-bittorrent-promotion-and-monetizing-a-book/ http://ibla.us/2011/content/thoughts-on-the-bittorrent-promo... 6. Caris O'Malley posts a pirate torrent link of his own novel and encourages readers to download it: http://hipsterlibrarian.com/2011/08/04/illegally-download-the-egg-said-nothing-today/ http://hipsterlibrarian.com/2011/08/04/illegally-download-th... 7. Wired editor Chris Anderson links to a torrent search for his book "The Long Tail": http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/02/books_want_to_b.html http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/02/books_want_to_...