Steampunk Tales has a free issue
By Paul Biba
I bought the first issue of Steampunk Takes and read it on my iPhone. I enjoyed it a lot, so I expect this issue will be fun also. Note that Tales is now available on other platforms. Here’s part of the release they sent me:
Fresh off of their tremendous rookie success with their debut issue, Steampulp Publishing LLC has announced the release of a free issue of Steampunk Tales, an electronic pulp-fiction magazine that is available as a native iPhone application, as a MobiPocket eBook and on Amazon Kindle. Additionally, Steampunk Tales is available as a DRM-free .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) download which can be read on any personal computer. Steampunk Tales Free-#1 contains the first four parts of G. D. Falksen’s An Unfortunate Engagement.
“G. D. Falksen was kind enough to submit the first four parts of his new serial, An Unfortunate Engagement, for publication at no cost. This is the first free content that we have offered. We are planning on releasing free mini-issues of Steampunk Tales as we’re able, between full releases of the ‘zine,” said John Sondericker III, Steampulp Publishing’s founder. G. D. Falksen’s An Unfortunate Engagement is a steampunk adventure tale filled with action, excitement, thrills, chills, and of course mad science, set against a backdrop of the Edwardian era. The serial will be continued in future issues ofSteampunk Tales.
August 13th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
It is understandable that the ebook version is more expensive, since most of the difference goes to the retailer. However, they appear to be violating the standard Kindle publishing contract by setting the list price for the Kindle version at $4.99 while listing it for $3.99 on MobiPocket.com.
August 15th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Steampunk Tales Free #1 is $0.99. Somebody doesn’t know how to do arithmetic, or I got the wrong book. Where is the link to the free issue?
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Kindle’s minimum price is $0.99 for anything, they wouldn’t let us put it up for free. I mentioned other options and explained that on the Kindle page for the zine. The issue is free on .pdf, MobiPocket (from the steampunktales.com site) and on iPhone.
The full issue’s #1 & #2 is out now as well.
Sorry for the confusion.