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Cory Doc­torow (of boingboing.net) has released his sec­ond novel, East­ern Stan­dard Tribe. Once again, he is releas­ing it simul­ta­ne­ously as both a free down­load in var­i­ous dig­i­tal for­mats and the stan­dard paper and ink ver­sion at a price.

Cory’s expla­na­tion for releas­ing a free format?

bq. “I don’t believe that there’s any market-demand for teasers or for “Dig­i­tal Rights Man­age­ment” tech­nol­ogy: none of you woke up this morn­ing and said, “Damn, I wish there was a way I could get less of the books I enjoy and a way I could do less with them once I have them.” My goal here is to fig­ure out what peo­ple actu­ally want out of elec­tron­i­cally deliv­ered text.”

Expand your mind and down­load the free ver­sion. If you like what you see, pay a few pen­nies for the book format.

Nev­er­the­less, Cory is an excel­lent author with a rich imag­i­na­tion and prose to back it up.