Day against DRM - discounted books

[liv]

Apparently May 4^th is an International Day against DRM. To celebrate this, Angry Robot Books are discounting all their titles by 50%, using the code DRMFREE.

Angry Robot does SF / horror / steampunk / urban fantasy type stuff. They're an actual publisher, with a fairly small selection of books but as far as I can tell all pretty good quality. (It's not like Smashwords or Fictionwise which are pretty much just marketplaces, for example.) It's all DRM free epubs – today's special offer is a half price deal, the rest of the time they are DRM free anyway, just more expensive. I bought two recently published, quite well reputed books for £5 in the UK; don't know what their American prices are like.

I wasn't made aware of this until half the Day against DRM had gone by, but hopefully those of you west of here will still have a few hours left to use the offer, if you're interested!

Comments

[scribblesinink]

Thanks for the heads-up. I have no idea who these authors are, but anytime I can try a new author for a couple Euros, and support a DRM-free publisher at the same time, I'm all for it.

[ephemera]

If you've looking for recs, albeit from someone who's tastes you don't know, I've enjoyed Lauren Beukes and Mike Shevdon's books, and devoured Blackbirds last week.

(I'm generally a fan of them as a publisher's - some of their books are not to my personal tastes, but I've yet to hit one that's actually *poor*, if that makes sense.)

[scribblesinink]

Thanks for the recs! I picked something almost at random that looked interesting, but I'll remember these for next time.

And yes, you made perfect sense :) There's plain bad writing, and there's different tastes. Badly written books is something I don't want to waste my time on, but if something happens to not be to my taste, I'll generally finish it anyway once I've started, if the writing's done well. So good to know they don't seem to publish poor stuff.