Free, Creative Commons licensed downloads of Rapture of the Nerds

After a short delay, Charlie Stross and I have finally managed to get the site for our new novel, Rapture of the Nerds, live and online, including Creative Commons licensed ebook versions of the book. If you enjoy the free downloads, we hope you'll buy a personal hardcopy at your local bookseller, or from your favorite online seller, or donate a copy to a library or school.

And if you'd like to reward us for our use of Creative Commons licenses, and reward Tor Books for its decision to drop DRM on all its ebooks, we hope you'll buy an ebook at your favorite ebook retailer.

USA:
Amazon Kindle (DRM-free)
Barnes and Noble Nook (DRM-free)
Google Books (DRM-free)
Kobo (DRM-free)
Apple iBooks (DRM-free)

Amazon
Booksense (will locate a store near you!)
Barnes and Noble
Powells
Booksamillion

Canada:
Amazon Kindle (DRM-free)
Kobo (DRM-free)

Chapters/Indigo
Amazon.ca

Rapture of the Nerds

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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http://twitter.com/mwiik Michael Wiik

Nice, but the craphound page leaves off the ‘pdf’ for the pdf version. One can just copy the link and add ‘pdf’, that works.
zax

It’s a shame there’s no universal honesty. Then purchases could happen after the artifact had been enjoyed and everyone would pay because it was the done thing. There would be a standard payment for those that didn’t enjoy it and a full price for those that thought it fantastic.
- http://twitter.com/bpappin Brill Pappin
  
  Love that idea, but human nature (or the nature of pretty much any species) would not allow it to happen that way.
  
  The best you could do is to put the value in some sort of “escrow” type of account, but then who’s to say you are just claiming you didn’t like it?
  
  CD makes his living on the idea that those that can afford it will afford it, and those that can’t should be able to read it anyway. I like that way of thinking myself, but I also know that there are a large number of freeloaders out there :) There are enough honest people out there that CD can make a living. Let him be remembered in history for that.
juioli024566

so good
http://twitter.com/fivemack Thomas Womack

May I ask our gracious host about the significance of the cover art? Is it a collection of CAD designs for 3D-printable objects (given the axis lines attached to them)? Or the assembly instructions for some unspeakably complicated Airfix-style model?
Guido

Thanks a lot, Cory!
AnotherDave

I see international availability of the ebook purchase is once again non-existent. Curiosity led me to check if this problem had been solved on some of your other books yet, and I see Little Brother, For the Win and a couple of others finally have a release date! … In November.
http://nelc.livejournal.com/ NelC

Cory, do you and Charlie want to hear about typos in the PDF yet?

Judge Guiliani has a paragraph break in between the ‘judge’ and the ‘Guiliani’ every time her name appears.

The chapter before ‘Appeals Court’ ends: “In fact, Bonnie thinks she could rather get used to “, breaking off prematurely.
http://profiles.google.com/eliotfur Илья Найдов

Can’t buy, because I live in the wrong country apparently… :(
kiptw

I’m not sure I get what’s going on. When I click the link, it takes me to Amazon, with a twelve-dollar price tag.
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