DRM-free audiobook of Eastern Standard Tribe

Cory Doctorow 10:35 am Wed Feb 4, 2015

Blackstone audio has produced a professional, DRM-free audiobook of my 2003 novel EST, a novel about jet-lag, conspiracies, management consultants, crypto-contracts and P2P that William Gibson called "Utterly contemporary and deeply peculiar — a hard combination to beat (or, these days, to find)."

Warren Ellis called it "just far enough ahead of the game to give you that authentic chill of the future, and close enough to home for us to know that he’s talking about where we live as well as where we're going to live; a connected world full of disconnected people. One of whom is about to lobotomise himself through the nostril with a pencil. Funny as hell and sharp as steel."

As with my other books, Audible refuses to carry this title because I won't allow them to use DRM on it. You can get it at Downpour, where all audiobooks are DRM-free. I'd really appreciate it if you'd share this with your audiobook-loving friends and encourage them to vote with their wallets for businesses that let artists choose whether their works should be locked down with DRM.

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