I think I remember reading a blog post explaining why one was not free, but I can't find it now. There's a reference to it here: https://old.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/rub7ff/is_corey_do...
Typical commercial publishing contracts, you can't just stick the book up online for free.
But up to that point, Doctorow had custom contracts where he could put the books online for free.
Re:Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
by Wowfunhappy on Sunday July 23, 2023 @07:29AM
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I don't think they're all there, e.g.
Don't know. Maybe it's too new?
I don’t think the newer ones (like Walkaway) are Free like the early ones?
Looks like that could be the case, yes. Maybe his publishers changed their minds. I know he and Charlie Stross had great difficulty getting Charlie's publishers to agree to a free ebook of Rapture of the Nerds.
It looks like there was briefly a giveaway of Walkaway and as a result it's on the Internet Archive, but I've not checked it.
Re:Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
by garrisonhh on Sunday July 23, 2023 @10:13AM
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Regardless, you can easily find the ebook online which Cory Doctorow won't have any problem with
Wow every format imaginable. Even the ebook as gba rom
Re:Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
by matt-attack on Sunday July 23, 2023 @12:35PM
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Apple Newton??
Curious though, is there a way to get it on an iPhone in the built in Books app?
EPUB format, DAOITMK was listed as “for Stanza”.
They are badly overpriced
Re:Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
by doctor_eval on Sunday July 23, 2023 @05:14PM
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How cool to see Plucker in that list. Something I started in the 90s.
E.g. here is Content...
https://craphound.com/content/download/
DAOITMK is here:
https://craphound.com/category/down/