Well, actually, a number of people have done exactly that sort of thing. Cory Doctorow (http://www.craphound.com/down/), for instance, and Harvey Danger (http://www.harveydanger.com/downloads/). Later this week, Neil Young (http://www.neilyoung.com) is gonna stream his new album for free.
See my LJ for how it got on all those sites: they have a auto-relay deal with a third party, so all of their vanity press stuff automatically gets fed into those sites. Which is how their vanity POD press stays alive. In short, she and her husband just cut their own throats, because the third party and the other sites will automatically ban all of their stuff from here on out.
PDF where? I've been poking through the 'Look Inside' feature at Amazon, and it looks... dull. Maybe some time in the Mystery Usenet Theater can make it more interesting. :)
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Date: 2006-04-23 06:16 am (UTC)Any volunteers to download the PDF? I'll bet it's such a great read!
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