Homeland

Prelude

A commercial interlude

As you read through this free ebook, you'll notice that it is dot- ted, here and there, with appreciations of great bookstores -- stores that I love, stores that have shown me love. As a former bookseller and a book hoarder for life, bookstores are my natural habitat. It's my hope that as you read this, you'll (ahem) bookmark these stores for regular visits and show them the love they deserve.

I've also dotted this ebook with “commercial interludes,” in which I shamelessly pitch the commercial editions of this book. This, after all, is my living. It's how I feed my family. It's how I come to have the extraordinary privilege of sitting in an office all day, making up stories and putting them down in words, which is all I ever wanted to do, since I was six years old. This being the 21st century, there is no way I can force you to pay for this book before reading it -- you can get pretty much any ebook on the Internet for free with no more difficulty than you'd undergo if you were to buy it through legit chan- nels -- so I hope that by giving you this, and trusting you, that you will reward me by helping to support me and my publisher (whose contribution to this book can't be overstated).

Now, perhaps you're thinking, “Hey, I don't really need a com- mercial ebook, and I don't want the print book -- can't I just say thank you some other way?” The answer to that is a resounding yes. As with my other recent books, I have assembled a list of librarians, teachers, and people from other public institutions who would like to get a free copy of Homeland for their kids and patrons. I pay an assistant, the wonderful Olga Nunes, to check out each of these peo- ple and ensure that they are who they say they are, and then we list them here:

‹http://craphound.com/homeland/donate›

If you want to tip me for this book, don't send me cash. Instead, send one of those institutions a copy of this book -- buy it from your local store and have it shipped, or buy it online -- and that way a bunch of kids will get access to it, and I'll get the sale credited to my name, which means bigger advances, bigger publicity budgets, and more foreign sales for me. It's a way to pay your debts forward in realtime, and it's pretty nifty (if I do say so myself).

(And I do)

Back to buying the book. This book is published by Tor Teen, and like all Tor books, all of its ebook editions are DRM-free. The hardcovers (and the paperbacks, when they ship) pay me a healthy royalty, and go to support a publisher that has poured huge amounts of money and time into making my books better and bringing them to the world. In other words, they're not just good books -- they're books that do good. Here's how you get yours:

USA:

Amazon Kindle (DRM-free)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00AEC8O2K/downandoutint-20

Barnes and Noble Nook (DRM-free)

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/homeland-cory-doctorow/1111414289?ean=9781466805873

Google Books (DRM-free)

http://books.google.com/books/about/Homeland.html?id=j97PrGdPlDkC&redir_esc=y

Kobo  (DRM-free)

http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Homeland/book-r_81xoetI0mZVRgxJwO2mQ/page1.html

Apple iBooks (DRM-free)

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/homeland/id569880561?mt=11

Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0765333694/downandoutint-20

Indiebound (will locate an independent store near you!)