R Stevens Releases DRM-Free Diesel Sweeties E-Book

R Stevens released a free PDF version of his Diesel Sweeties: Pocket Sweeties Vol. 1 on the occasion of his 35th birthday. At least one commentator, Stephen Shankland of CNET, took note of the offering as part of the general trend for entertainers and creative artists to release content without the kind of restrictive coding that makes it hard to copy. As Shankland notes, Stevens is one of the smarter and more aggressive webcomics-making businesspeople out there; in the piece he wrote, he affords the artist room to place where this particular book stands in the body of his overall work.

This strikes me as more of the classic "free introductory book" model than it does the "I'm going to make money by trusting the audience not to exploit me via free copies available everywhere without anyone paying me" model, but it still seems worth noting. Even if you have no interest in the issue of releasing this kind of content this particular way, I figure you might want the PDF.
 
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