I saw this Boing Boing: Cory's novel is out! and
was pleased to see books licensed in this way. Then I read the blurb about the book.
"It's only natural that Alan, the broadminded hero of Doctorow's fresh, unconventional SF novel, is willing to help everybody he meets. After all, he's the product of a mixed marriage (his father is a mountain and his mother is a washing machine), so he knows how much being an outcast can hurt. Alan tries desperately to behave like a human being--or at least like his idealized version of one. He joins a cyber-anarchist's plot to spread a free wireless Internet through Toronto at the same time he agrees to protect his youngest brothers (members of a set of Russian nesting dolls) from their dead brother who's now resurrected and bent on revenge."
But the license allowed me to just start reading it in html format (plenty of other formats available). Actually I quite enjoyed what I have read so far so I might go in further and if I like it then I will buy a copy.
This economic model makes sense. It seems fairer to both writer and readers, it surely must help the marketing and clearly Cory believes it helps the sales.
Worth considering for your own stuff.
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