Street Tech pal Cory Doctorow’s new novel, Eastern Standard Tribe, starts shipping today. A free e-book version is also now available for download from his Web site He writes:
As with Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, my first novel, I’ve made the whole text of the novel available as a free download in a variety of open, standards-defined formats, under the terms of a Creative Commons license — and I’ve written a short essay explaining why I’ve done it: in a nutshell, this worked really well for my first book, and I’d be crazy not to repeat the experiment with my second novel.