Free ebooks now hitting mass market

barbling · 08-08-2009, 03:23 PM

I found this amusing, as anyone who is in IM knows it already:
The latest craze: Free e-books offerings

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NEW YORK - James Patterson's latest best seller, "The Angel Experiment," is a little different from his usual hits. The novel isn't new; it came out four years ago. Readers aren't picking it up at bookstores, but mostly on the Kindle site at Amazon.com.
And the price is low even for an old release: $0.00.
"I like the notion of introducing people to one book, while promoting the sales of another," says the prolific and mega-selling author (and co-author) of numerous thrillers." His Kindle download is the first book of Patterson's "Maximum Ride" young adult series....

The latest craze: Free e-books offerings by AP: Yahoo! Tech

Can you say, getting with the show

chrisgarrett · 08-08-2009, 03:24 PM

Means we need to move on to the next thing I guess

chtfld · 08-18-2009, 06:20 PM

Ha, yeah. I saw this the other day on Amazon with a few books I read back in college - thought it was funny these guys were doing what we've all be doing for years. It's going mainstream.

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