7 Answers2026-07-29
My last thought for the day concerns discoverability vs. deprivation. I do think that piracy often serves as a discovery model for authors – allowing readers to ‘try before they buy’. However, very quickly it can devolve into depravation – people consuming media without ever contributing to the author’s earnings in any way. This ‘discovery’ model needs to transition into ‘supporting this author’. So you used that free PDF to ‘try’ an author – great! Now support them if you like their work. Buy their next book, pre-order it, get it from the library (since they paid the license for you), spread the word online… discover an author via the free sample, then become a paying reader for subsequent work by that author. That’s a sustainable relationship for the stories you love.
4 Answers2025-08-07
I get free legal thrillers from BookBub – many free books are offered on a daily basis. Occasionally a publisher such as Tor will make an eBook free to download for a period of time. Open Library at Archive.org is also a good source of free eBooks – you create an account and then borrow books. This is all to be done within the bounds of the authorized distribution of the copyrighted work.
9 Answers2026-03-30
Wow, this thread has grown quickly. I came across the title while browsing and thought I'd drop by and add my two cents. As a non-player of D&D, I can only speak from my knowledge of the game from my roommate's perspective. He is a player and has many of the large books filled with great dragon art. The game appears to be quite complicated, and after my roommate attempted to explain the rules to me, I found myself waking up from a nap with my eyes open. It's always fun to hear the group's laughter coming from the other room on game nights. The group clearly has a lot of passion for the game. Carry on!
1 Answers2025-11-17
Thanks for the love for ‘Bad Bishop’ – if you want a clean copy of this book, it’s actually two different titles by two separate authors. I’m talking about Layla Reyne’s ‘Bad Bishop’ (which is a romance/romantic-suspense published in the Perfect Play series) and L.J. Shen’s ‘Bad Bishop’ (a dark/mafia style novel). As far as downloading or borrowing a copy of this book, it depends on which copy you’re after. You can check out major ebook stores as well as your local library via their app. I’ve managed to find Layla Reyne’s ‘Bad Bishop’ on Kobo (in EPUB 3 format – DRM-free in this listing) as well as Apple Books where you can purchase a digital copy of the title. If you’re looking to borrow a digital copy of the ebook via your local library, titles are listed on services like OverDrive/Libby – you can check if your local library carries a copy of the ebook title you’re after. L.J. Shen’s ‘Bad Bishop’ (which is available in paperback as well as digitally) is sold via retailers like Barnes & Noble. Note that if you’re after a PDF copy of the ebook, it’s worth noting that most retailers will sell you an EPUB or even a retailer specific version of the ebook (such as a Kobo EPUB). DRM-free versions of ebooks (which are downloadable in EPUB format) can be converted to PDF for your personal use with tools such as Calibre, however this won’t work with DRM-protected ebooks which are typically borrowed from libraries and which are read within the library’s authorized reading apps. Whilst it’s legal to convert DRM-free EPUBS to PDF for your own personal use, this isn’t the case for DRM-protected ebooks – a very useful library FAQ explains the pitfalls of eBook conversion, especially as regards to eBooks protected by DRM and how the use of conversion tools is forbidden for these types of eBooks until they have been freed from their DRM. So, essentially: (1) check which ‘Bad Bishop’ you want to read, (2) check out retailers like Kobo, Apple Books and B&N etc to see if they sell the eBook in the format you need and with DRM, (3) check out your local library’s stock of eBooks on services like OverDrive/Libby (4) provided the eBook is DRM-free, you can convert it to PDF for your personal use (there are many freely available tools and programs that can do this for you, such as Calibre etc). () I really hope this helps you to find a legitimate copy of the ‘Bad Bishop’ eBook you’re after to download. I’ve personally detailed how to obtain Layla Reyne’s copy of ‘Bad Bishop’ (Kobo) and L.J. Shen’s copy of ‘Bad Bishop’ (on the publisher’s and B&N website). I hope you manage to find a suitable copy and really enjoy reading this eBook!
12 Answers2025-11-28
So rather than saving up for the physical copy of Rifts, or even downloading the official PDF (although that is lovely too), buying a copy of this inspirational, yet messy and disorganized artifact of a book will be worth every penny of the hard-earned cash you spend on it. Because what you’re buying is so much more than a rulebook – it’s a ticket to the world of Rifts and into a decades old community of fans who are passionate about a game that has inspired so many other games and scenarios. Work a couple of hours overtime at your job, skip buying a few coffees on the way to work, save up your pennies from your lunch money as a kid, it’s worth it!
10 Answers2025-08-01
Buying a book at a local, independent store as opposed to a big box store is a great way to support the community. Recommending a book to someone else by suggesting they get it from the library is also good. But downloading a pirated PDF of the book? That’s like sneaking into the back door of the restaurant, eating a whole meal, and then leaving without anyone seeing you or paying you. The restaurant gets no benefit from your having been there, and if too many people do this, the restaurant goes out of business. Similarly, many authors, even those who are published by big publishers, operate on the edge of poverty, and it is the big sellers like Maas that fund the publication of the mid-list authors that a publisher takes on risk with. Killing this revenue stream will hurt all of these people.
3 Answers2025-12-30
Yes, please read The Hunger of the Gods by Gustav Gwynne. It’s a cracking read. The battles are superb. The entire book is a wonderful exploration of a great, Norse inspired world. Read it not via some dodgy, virus laden PDF, read proper copies. Maybe indie bookshops do ‘pay what you like’ sales, I’ve seen plenty of ebooks by this author discounted to near nothing at times too. Join a Discord server for fans of fantasy. I’m sure there’ll be people willing to swap/ lend you a copy of this.
Some indie bookshops do ‘pay what you like’ sales. You can also find plenty of discounted ebooks. And there’s always the chance that someone on a fantasy-themed Discord server will trade you recommendations with you, or even lend you a copy. Be creative, not a pirate!
10 Answers2025-12-30
It’s like subscribing to future stories. When you buy one of Brandon’s books, you’re not just paying for the paper and ink of that particular novel. You’re helping to fund the next Stormlight book, you’re helping him to get his next big project funded via Kickstarter, you’re a patron of the arts.
9 Answers2025-11-24
Are there any free ebook curation sites that have this book? That would be a really nicely packaged up ebook on one of the following free sites: Project Gutenberg, ManyBooks or Free-Ebooks.net. Almost all of the titles on these free sites are public domain or have been added by the authors themselves and these sites have very clean interfaces and safe downloads. Even if the book is not free it is often worth a search on these sites to see if it has recently gone free even if it is not a newly published title.
I’ve seen many books offered for free for short periods of time as part of a marketing campaign, often through platforms such as BookFunnel and StoryOrigin which enable authors to give away free review copies or reader magnets. Sometimes free books are promoted via authors’ own mailings, or indeed via Facebook groups or mailing lists for specific genres. It’s worth joining such groups or lists as you can get to hear about free books in your genre before they are promoted more widely on the web.
9 Answers2025-06-02
When people talk about ‘free’ downloads and ‘legal’ downloads, there’s a lot of confusion as to what they mean. A legal download of a PDF would typically be one where the copyright holder has given permission for it to be downloaded. Often this is in return for payment (to buy a copy), or for people to have access to the PDF through their local library (via an OverDrive account). Occasionally someone may give permission for a PDF to be downloaded temporarily as part of a promotion (and this would have been explicitly stated by the publisher). In general, if you want a legal PDF, you have three choices: buy it from the publisher’s online store (e.g. Wiley, Amazon), borrow it from a lending library that has a valid license to supply it to you (e.g. via a library’s OverDrive account), or have a subscription to a site that has bought a license to make it available to subscribers (e.g. Perlego, O’Reilly). All else is piracy, which undermines the authors of these very useful guides. They contain a lot of useful information, and it’s worth paying for them so that the series can continue to be written.