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Arrrrrrr! BOGOF at the RTC, Me Hearties!
Posted by: | Comments{Please note: the following special offer has now closed… but keep an eye on our webstore www.robottradingcompany.com for future offers and great deals on DRM-Free ePub Ebooks!}
Today be International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
To mark the occasion, for today only, if you buy any two novel-length Angry Robot ebooks from the Robot Trading Company we’ll let you “plunder” one of them, absolutely free!
That’s right: for every two Angry Robot ebooks you add to your shopping basket, you’ll only be asked to pay for one, when you check out.
Terms, Conditions and Articles of Association:
1. Does not apply to ebooks on sale at the Robot Trading Company that are not published by Angry Robot.
2. Does not apply to Strange Chemistry ebooks, Angry Robot Bundles, Omnibus Editions, Print Editions, Subscription Packages, or Angry Robot Nano Editions.
3. Pieces of Eight are sadly no longer legal tender and cannot be accepted in lieu of actual money.
Robot Trading Company: Ebooks from Anarchy and Infinity Plus Now On Sale
Posted by: | CommentsToday we have some rather exciting news about our Robot Trading Company Ebookstore.
For a while now, we’ve been looking at the way the ebook market seems to be shaping up and – particularly in the UK – it looks like there’s plenty to choose from, if what you’re interested in is cookie-cutter bestsellers, celebrity biogs or gimmicky crap about insurance-selling meerkats.
If it’s the really big names in genre fiction that you’re after, then you’re probably spoilt for choice as well. But what if – just like your friendly, neighbourhood Robot Overlords; genre readers and fans all, long before any of us got anywhere near the publishing industry – you enjoy the sort of really interesting genre fiction that typifies our genre, without having to wade through thousands of recommendations for unsuitable books, simply because you once searched for a birthday gift for your niece?
In other words: where’s the specialist genre ebook store that’s offering as wide a selection of professionally published – selected, curated and third-party supported – genre ebooks as it possibly can and nothing else? Where’s the champion of the independent genre ebook publishers? Where’s the specialist genre ebook store that’s run by fans for fans, with a mission to boldly seek out new suppliers, new sources of top-notch genre ebooks and bring them to the attention of a genre audience that’s always hungry for new reading material, without opening the floodgates to all and sundry?
We had a good look around and – with the honourable exception of one or two small, but perfectly formed stores – it didn’t seem as though anyone else was going all-out to offer that kind of service. So in typical Angry Robot style, we decided to have a go ourselves.
We’re therefore delighted to announce that as of right now, as well as stocking every single Angry Robot ebook and a whole bunch of short stories by Angry Robot authors, the Robot Trading Company is also offering a range of ebooks from fellow independent publishing houses Anarchy Books and Infinity Plus Books.
It’s early days yet, but there’s lots more to come. We’re already talking to a few other fellow independent publishers who have expressed an interest in supplying us with their ebooks and we have a list of over a hundred more who we’re hoping will be interested in talking to us as well.
Get Involved!
We’re issuing a double call-to-action, to lovers of quality genre fiction (and non-fiction) and to independent publishers of quality genre fiction, everywhere:
If you’re someone who loves nothing better than loading up a selection of interesting, quirky and definitely-not-run-of-the-mill genre ebooks to your ePub-friendly reading device (or don’t mind running a quick conversion to Mobi for your Kindle) and then getting stuck in – and especially if you’re someone who believes in supporting independent publishers and their authors – then please do consider helping out by doing any or all of the following:
1) Visiting www.robottradingcompany.com and browsing our catalogue to see what catches your eye or takes your fancy…
2) Signing up for the Robot Trading Company Mailing List, so we can keep you up-to-date with details of new releases, special offers, competitions and more.
3) Liking the Robot Trading Company on Facebook or following the Robot Trading Company Twitter Feed.
4) Telling your quality-genre-fiction-loving friends about us, too.
And if you’re an independent genre fiction (or non-fiction) publisher – or a previously-professionally-published author who’s now re-publishing their rights-reverted or brand new titles in ebook format – who might be interested in supplying your ebooks to the Robot Trading Company, here’s how to find out more:
1) Read the relevant section of the Robot Trading Company FAQ.
2) Get in touch (as per the details in the FAQ) with your questions and details. We’ll get back to you as soon as we possibly can with answers and information.
We look forward to welcoming you to the bright, shiny, chrome-plated future of independent genre ebook retail at the Robot Trading Company Webstore and sincerely hope you enjoy your DRM-Free, ePub ebook-buying experience.
Free Samples of Every Angry Robot Book
Posted by: | CommentsWe don’t always blow our own trumpet, so having spent a few, slightly tedious hours on a very hot day assembling the latest batch of samplers of some upcoming Angry Robot titles, we thought it worth reminding all you deeply lovely AR readers that we do, as standard, offer a free excerpt from every single one of our books.
There’s a lot of talk about eBook piracy at the moment. And there are all sorts of reasons. Some of them – “I like having stuff for free, so I’m going to take it; I’ll never get caught” – are a little hard to help with, short of some ghastly state surveillance program which nobody much wants. Others, though, we understand and we’re keen to help with if we can.
Ebooks are expensive - well, ours are always priced below their comparative physical fellows. We still have to pay for editing and proofreading, design and all that, but we’ve knocked off the cost of printing for you. (And don’t forget that at the moment, in the UK eBooks are subject to 20% VAT where print books aren’t.)
I can’t get them in my country - actually, you can buy our eBooks, DRM-free, from any country in the world. We also release our editions through all major eBook outlets, in as many countries as we can but notably across North America and Europe, in the same week.
I only wanted to read a sample, see if I liked it enough to buy it… – And here we are. That’s why we’re very happy to sit here on a sweltering day preparing more natty little 50-page selections from our upcoming releases for you.
Below the jump (or further down the screen if you’re not on our homepage at the moment) you’ll find a selection of our recent excerpts, each one inside a cute little app thing. Take them, host them on your own site if you like (it’s very easy, and makes your blog look grrrreat), send them to your mates, share them wherever. Then check out the individual book pages here on the site for samples of our entire range.
And if you like the free samples we give you, you might even want to buy our lovely books, which you can do over at The Robot Trading Company (our very own webstore) or your regular eBook or pBook retailer of choice.
[Image Credit: Rather fabulous pirate kindle blatantly nicked from bookish.livejournal.com - no accreditation given there, so if it's yours, please let us know and we'll either add in a credit link or take it down...]
Day Against DRM: 50% off All Angry Robot eBooks at RobotTradingCompany.com
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Today is the International Day Against DRM.
Here at Angry Robot we’ve never inflicted DRM on our eBooks, preferring to trust our customers and readers instead – and we must say it’s most gratifying to see folks like Tor / Forge and co. catching up at long last… ;)
Anyhow, to mark the occasion, here’s a bit of a special offer for you: if you buy any of our DRM-free ePub-format eBooks from the Robot Trading Company in the next 24 hours you can get a mahoosive 50% discount.
Here’s how:
First, add lots of eBooks to your basket, then:
1. Enter the coupon code ‘DRMFREE’ in the (coupon / voucher) box
2. Click the ‘Update Basket’ button
3. Checkout, download and enjoy!
The Rules:
1. Offer expires at Noon, BST on Saturday May 5th 2012 (or whenever one of us remembers to log in and switch the coupon code off again – if you’re reading this on early Saturday afternoon then give it a go – you never know…)
2. Offer applies to all Angry Robot eBook novels and omnibus editions currently available via the Robot Trading Company website.
3. Offer does not apply to subscription packages (which are insanely good value all on their ownsome) or short stories (which are pretty darn cheap already, at 10 for £3.49).
What are you waiting for? GO, fill your eBoots with eBooks! Go NOW!
