Free Baen SciFi for anyone who can read Mobi - including Kindle
By Paul Biba
This is from the Kindle 2 Review (at least I think that’s the name of the blog, the owner’s nomenclature is awfully confusing):
With the first book in each of their Sci-Fi series Baen includes a CD that has all the books in the series.
Originally the idea must have been to encourage users to take a look at one or two books and get them to buy the others - since no reasonable person would attempt to read through a whole series on their computer screens or on their pdas.
Since we now have Kindles and the books are available in Mobi format, it means any Kindle owner basically has access to ALL Baen Books in ALL of these Series - and for Free.
It’s not a ‘try out the first Temeraire novel and then if you like it buy the rest’. Its every single book in the series available in .mobi format. And lots and lots of series.
As the author of the post points out, this is not “ripping Baen off”, as Baen is well aware of this and sanctions the practice.
April 26th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
These are all DRM-free and are not just in MOBI. The Baen CDs (and the Fifth Imperium) contain each ebook in Baen’s normal formats at the time they were created. So they don’t include ePub, even though Webscriptions does now. But they do all include HTML, MOBI, LIT, Rocket, and RTF. The recent ones include LRF for the Sony Reader. For ePub (and also for MOBI, particularly from the older CDs) I suggest downloading the LIT version and converting it using Calibre. Older MOBIs tend to have very small images.