Now I have to be all clever
Baen ate my brain. They have the most insidious marketing strategy since the Macintosh took over educational computing.
First hit is free, kid
They support my e-book format. And not only that, you can read samples online. Like for the NEW MILES VORKOSIGAN book. But that's okay. I can wait for Bujold to take as much time as she needs. I think. (twitchMaytwitch) But their webscription thing lets you buy books in serial format. So for the book due out in March, which I have been dying for for a year (Shiva Option), I have 28 chapters. Which is not, evidently, all of them. I have that many because I i bought that webscription.
So I buy books from them, or even get them free, but buying only costs me about $3 a book, a price I can well afford. Then I download them into my reader and enjoy them. And then, and then, dear listener, I am compelled to buy them in a physical format. There are two reasons for this.
1) One really should not read their eBook in the bathtub, although very occasionally I use a ziploc baggie to good effect.
2) Paperbacks are easier to loan out. So if I love a book, I must buy it to loan to other people. Diabolical, I say!
First hit is free, kid
They support my e-book format. And not only that, you can read samples online. Like for the NEW MILES VORKOSIGAN book. But that's okay. I can wait for Bujold to take as much time as she needs. I think. (twitchMaytwitch) But their webscription thing lets you buy books in serial format. So for the book due out in March, which I have been dying for for a year (Shiva Option), I have 28 chapters. Which is not, evidently, all of them. I have that many because I i bought that webscription.
So I buy books from them, or even get them free, but buying only costs me about $3 a book, a price I can well afford. Then I download them into my reader and enjoy them. And then, and then, dear listener, I am compelled to buy them in a physical format. There are two reasons for this.
1) One really should not read their eBook in the bathtub, although very occasionally I use a ziploc baggie to good effect.
2) Paperbacks are easier to loan out. So if I love a book, I must buy it to loan to other people. Diabolical, I say!