Orbit, a science fiction and fantasy publisher, is offering one e-book (they call them ebooks, no hyphen) per month for only $1. This month its The Way of the Shadows, by Brent Weeks. In February a book by Iain M. Banks, then Karen Miller and then Brian Ruckley.
They are trying to get readers hooked on the first volume of a series, as well as promoting their backlist. It’s encouraging that more and more publishers are seeing the e-book as a promotional tool. The books are available from Sony, Mobipocket and Amazon. I wonder why they are charging a dollar instead of giving them away. Orbit is an imprint of Hachette and you can find Orbit’s complete e-book catalogue here.
You did not mention in the posting that the offer is valid only to readers in the USA (as clearly stated on the website).
I would appreciate it if you mention this fact instead of forcing non-USA readers of your blog to go to the website to discover this for themselves.
My Fictionwise newsletter tells me it is also available there in Secure eReader or Secure Microsoft Reader. Unfortunately I have a proud history of not buying DRM-crippled books (or music or games), and I wouldn’t bite for this even if it were free. Multiformat would’ve been keen, though.
Kam-Yung Soh: We’re a global site, and we do our best to include information of interest to people outside the States.
In writing about Wowio, for example, we lamented that non-U.S. people were missing out, and the company responded to us and others with similar complaints (although I wish it had responded in a different way).
We’re not perfect, though, and I appreciate your reminder!
Thanks,
David