This is just a really short post to point out the blog entry on the now-live Tor.com that has a collection of links to all the free ebooks they released and all the desktop wallpapers.

I think they are only leaving those links live for a week, so you should check it out soon. It looks like they are also working on selling ebooks in some way, which would be great. My personal dream-scenario: Tor.com hooks up with Amazon.com to sell DRM-free ebooks on the kindle and any other ebook reader as simple downloads. I don’t know what format I like best, but one that works with FBReader is what I want.

Hooking up with Amazon would be nice because when I think books, that is what I think, and they have a nice infrastructure set up already for web distribution (from their MP3 business) and they know how to deal with large volume internet shopping.

Still, even if they set something up on their own, that is cool by me as long as I can pay a few bucks to get DRM-free ebooks that I can read on a variety of devices, and most importantly have the assurance that I can keep reading them in the future. That is the big reason to avoid DRM in my mind.