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As far as I know, all of Doctorow's books are on his website for free download anyway.

E.g. here is Content...

https://craphound.com/content/download/

DAOITMK is here:

https://craphound.com/category/down/

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Wow every format imaginable. Even the ebook as gba rom

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”.

this? https://github.com/stanfordnlp/stanza

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.

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.

Regardless, you can easily find the ebook online which Cory Doctorow won't have any problem with

I don't think they're all there, e.g.

https://craphound.com/category/redteamblues/

Don't know. Maybe it's too new?

How cool to see Plucker in that list. Something I started in the 90s.

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