The always excellent C Stross announced last week that his publisher (Orbit) was putting out the Atrocity Archives as a low-priced eBook. It costs £3 (plus £0.59 tax) or approximately €5 or $7 US and is available in two DRM crippled formats: Adobe and MS .lit. I prefer the latter because of the existance of a conversion utility which means that I can choose whether to read using Microsoft's reader or something simple like a web browser. As it happens the blog comments are as fascinating as always with comments by Cory Doctorow and a couple of Orbit books editors. I made a couple of comments down the bottom. I hope Orbit does in fact release a bunch more of these eBooks at this price because it will be interesting to see if they are able to be successful or not.
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