Have Your Book & E-Read It Too

A kick-ass move from ECW Press helps independent bookstores get into the ebook game – at least for ECW titles.

Buy any book from their Spring 2012 list – and many, many backlist titles – and get the ebook free.

Says ECW co-publisher David Caron: "When readers pay top price for one of our books, we feel they should be able to read it in the way that fits best with their life: a printed book in a comfy chair, an eBook on their phone on the bus, whatever. We also wanted to find a way to include bookstores that don't sell eBooks, so that both the store's customers and the bookseller feel that they are getting good value from an ECW Press book."

How it works:

1. Buy the book anywhere.

2. Email ECW Press with your sales details (receipt number, where you bought it).

3. They'll email you back with your free ebook attached.

They're also honoring the deal for a large number of backlist titles – including Death Plays Poker & Dead Politician Society, to my delight – on sales going forward.

ECW is a quirky Canadian independent press. They publish over 50 books a year from an eclectic range of excellent authors – like John McFetridge (Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is one of the best and grittiest crime novels I've ever read), Douglas Gibson (whose recent book Stories About Storytellers is a fun memoir of his life in publishing, Catherine Gildiner (whose memoir Too Close to the Falls is so fast and funny I thought I was reading fiction), and many, many more.

To find out if your ECW title qualifies you for a free ebook, shoot them an email to find out.

Just one more reason I am stoked to be working with this groundbreaking, word-loving publisher.