{"id":1557,"date":"2007-04-24T19:34:44","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T19:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2007-04-24T19:34:44","modified_gmt":"2007-04-24T19:34:44","slug":"free_as_in_beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1557","title":{"rendered":"Free As In Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baen, a major publisher of science fiction novels, is making its catalog of electronic books available at no charge to readers with disabilities<\/a>. Individuals need to complete a short application<\/a> to gain access to the books. Apparently, this policy was put in place a few months ago and I’d be curious to know what kind of response it has elicited. The catalog is a bit heavy on military SF for my taste, but I might take Baen up on its offer nonetheless. <\/p>\n

Now, if only other publishers would make more of their back catalogs available in electronic format. I’m almost certain I would spend even more on books if the I could read them on my screen. Since the iTunes store came on-line, the amount of discretionary income I’ve devoted to music has shot up considerably. Come on, media empires, help me spend my money. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Baen, a major publisher of science fiction novels, is making its catalog of electronic books available at no charge to readers with disabilities. Individuals need to complete a short application to gain access to the books. Apparently, this policy was put in place a few months ago and I’d be curious to know what kind […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-p7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}