Want a Fre*e Book by a Major Author!

Here's a great way to both support a major author (who is in his own way helping to promote the self-publishing movement) all while getting a whole book for free!

Steal This Book. Or at Least Download It Free.
By Claudia H. Deutsch


"Warren Adler, the author of [27 books including] "The War of the Roses," is self-publishing his new novel electronically and e-mailing it free, a chapter at a time, to anyone who asks."

"Fogies (like this reporter) who still want the feel of pages 'can always print the chapter out,' he (Adler) said. 'The main thing is, give readers a new book for free, and they might go back and buy some of the former books.'"

[great marketing ploy, btw]

"The way Mr. Adler, 77, sees it, portable electronic readers will soon do to paper books what the Walkman and iPod did to boomboxes."

And Adler noted, "during a recent lunch at Pigalle, a French restaurant in Manhattan's theater district, 'Print publishing has had a great 500-year run, but the print book is morphing into the screen book."

But, I won't tell you the rest, you'll have to read it for yourself.

This is a great article about an author who although has been there and done that still has enough gumption to go ahead and give us independent authors a boost by letting us know that even the "old dogs can learn new tricks."

Check it out, it's definitely a story not to miss!

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/21/business/
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