Free Ebooks from Tor

[Krug]

http://www.tor.com/

Something new is coming. Register to be one of the first to join us, and receive free digital books from bestselling and award-winning SF and fantasy authors. This is just the beginning.

Once you register, you'll receive our newsletter and a link to download a digital book. And you'll receive a link to another new book every week.

The first week's free book is Mistborn, by rising fantasy star Brandon Sanderson. Next week's will be Old Man's War by John Scalzi, 2006's winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Over the next several weeks, other books still.

So sign up. Stay in touch. And watch the skies.

 

[Darth Shoju]

Consider me registered.

Thanks a million!

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Signed up just now.

Thanks!

The Auld Grump

 

[Starman]

This is interesting. I'm going to have to sign up.

 

[Lazybones]

I just finished both of those books recently, but I don't own either, so I'd like to have a digital copy for the future.

Hopefully Tor will go the way of Baen Books, which offers an excellent sampling of free e-books as a way of getting readers interested in new authors.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Coolio!

Just registered.

 

[Knightfall]

Excellent!

Me too.

 

[F5]

I just signed up too. Free ebooks just for signing up to a mailing list was too good to pass up, and I've been wanting to check out Mistborn ever since it was announced that the author would be writing the last Wheel of Time book...

But now I'm regretting it. There's no connection between this site and TOR Publishing's main site, beyond a hyperlink. This link goes to WWW.Tor.Com, which has no content to it other than this Watch the Skies sign-up page, and some "privacy info". The actual web portal for Tor Books is www.tor-forge.com. There's no mention of this offer on the main TOR site, or the main MacMillan site, of which TOR is an imprint. In fact, on the tor-forge site, there's a link to sign up for their newsletter...which is completely different from this Watch the Skies page. I've found it mentioned in a couple of Blogs, but no official communication from the publisher.

Nothing obviously nefarious going on, but my Web-Scam sense is tingling.

I'm really hoping this is legit...it's a great idea. But I'd advise being cautious about what you download from this weekly newsletter, or what information you provide them with beyond your e-mail, on the off chance that this is a scam.

If anyone has links to any kind of official announcement or offer from the Publisher, that would be awesome, and much appreciated.

 

[Shade]

It seems legit. They're on the same IP block.

Host name: www.tor-forge.com
IP address: 64.124.160.219

Host name: www.tor.com
IP address: 64.124.160.246

And thanks to the OP! Mistborn is one of the best fantasy books I've read in years.

 

[Fast Learner]

I'm really surprised that their top age bracket was "30+". Do they actually not care beyond 29? Very, very weird, frankly.