Author's uses Internet for 28th book

NY Times: Steal This Book. Or at Least Download It Free.

Wherein novelist Warren Adler, who has written 27 books, is self-publishing his 28th one electronically, and e-mailing it free, a chapter at a time, to anyone who asks. Excerpt:

The way Mr. Adler, 77 (there goes "you can't teach an old dog new tricks"), sees it, portable electronic readers will soon do to paper books what the Walkman and iPod did to boomboxes.

"Print publishing has had a great 500-year run, but the print book is morphing into the screen book," he said. ...

Nothing can guarantee a sale, but, Mr. Adler said, for as little as $295 - plus a fee for each book sold - self-publishing services will register a copyright and put a book into an electronic format that can be sold as an e-book or printed out. Up the price to $1,000 or so, and the services will send out news releases, contact reviewers and offer the book to stores and online vendors like Amazon.com.

The Times doesn't say how to get those free chapters of Adler's new novel. Here's his website.