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Temporarily free sci-fi novels from independent sci-fi authors

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  1. [8]
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    Checked the top line of books, looks like a whole lot of sign up spam will be heading your way here, if you take advantage of all of these. E.g. sign up with your email, to be sent a link to...

    Checked the top line of books, looks like a whole lot of sign up spam will be heading your way here, if you take advantage of all of these. E.g. sign up with your email, to be sent a link to download the thing... it's just not worth it, even with a throwaway

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    I set up a throwaway, and will block and black hole everything after getting these.

    Currently at 37 41 42 48 51 53 55 59 61 emails and counting. Ridiculous. And quite some of the 'Update Preferences' links give no option to unsubscribe.

    Cannot recommend using these links unless you can easily divest yourself of the consequences.

    Edit: I'm unsubbing at the earliest opportunity from each sign up. I've had emails from authors after the unsub too.

    6 votes
    1. BeanBurrito
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      Yes, use a disposable email address to be "safe". I did. Got an email about once a month from the author's email list I had to sign up for to get his book for free ( not all the authors do that )...

      Yes, use a disposable email address to be "safe".

      I did.

      Got an email about once a month from the author's email list I had to sign up for to get his book for free ( not all the authors do that ) until I clicked an unsubscribe link in one of the emails.

      Then nothing more, no problems.

      3 votes
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      Minithra
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      A while back I signed up to the https://iasfa.org/ Newsletter - there's usually an email every month, with a bunch of free and discounted books, along with new release promotions. The genres vary...

      A while back I signed up to the https://iasfa.org/ Newsletter - there's usually an email every month, with a bunch of free and discounted books, along with new release promotions. The genres vary every month, too.

      3 votes
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        chocobean
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        And they don't sell your email to a bunch more? I'm game if they don't spam

        And they don't sell your email to a bunch more? I'm game if they don't spam

        2 votes
        1. Minithra
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          I didn't notice any uptick in the spam I was getting, yeah.

          I didn't notice any uptick in the spam I was getting, yeah.

          1 vote
        2. BeanBurrito
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          I had to sign up to an author's email list when I got his book for free. I did not notice any change in the amount of spam I got and I did not get any sci-fi related spam. Once I unsubscribed from...

          I had to sign up to an author's email list when I got his book for free.

          I did not notice any change in the amount of spam I got and I did not get any sci-fi related spam.

          Once I unsubscribed from the email list I never got anything related to that again.

          1 vote
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      chocobean
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      Oooh one time I signed up for a free thing from an author I actually like and follow, and what follows was months of similar fantasy indie author deluge. I felt so bad unsubscribing to each of the...

      Oooh one time I signed up for a free thing from an author I actually like and follow, and what follows was months of similar fantasy indie author deluge. I felt so bad unsubscribing to each of the authors mailing lists but I just wasn't interested in them and I didn't sign up for them.

      What is the future of human writing and there's just so much writing out there and people are reading less and less

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        I'm locked in to the Aeon 14 series right now, and likely will be for some time. I thought I might have been bored with it after so many books, but I'm still invested.

        I'm locked in to the Aeon 14 series right now, and likely will be for some time. I thought I might have been bored with it after so many books, but I'm still invested.

        2 votes
  2. BeanBurrito
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    The link above is to a promotional for science fiction novels written by indie authors. You can download their novels for free, for October - November. Disclaimer: I don't make any money from...

    The link above is to a promotional for science fiction novels written by indie authors. You can download their novels for free, for October - November.

    Disclaimer: I don't make any money from this. Neither does my sci-fi author friend C.A. Hartman who is part of the promotional with her book "The Refugee". I highly recommend it.

    5 votes