Saga Press — the new publisher of The Red: First Light — is a new imprint of Simon and Schuster. Their first books won’t be out until next spring, but today they made this announcement:

New York, New York, October 8—Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced today that all e-books from the forthcoming science fiction and fantasy line will be sold without DRM.

“The science fiction and fantasy community were early adopters of electronic formats, and have enthusiastically embraced DRM-free content while showing great respect for authors’ works under copyright. In launching our imprint, we are pleased to offer this convenience to our readers and test the waters of DRM-free publishing,” said Joe Monti, executive editor of Saga.

This is terrific news. My ebooks have always been DRM-free for the convenience of readers who might change devices, or need to make back-up copies. So I’m very pleased to know that my novels to be published by Saga Press will be DRM-free as well.

Here’s more on the topic, from Joe Monti, my editor at Saga Press.

And here’s another post in which Joe talks about the start-up process behind Saga Press.

Starting today, my books are available at a new outlet, Book View Café.

Book View Café is a professional authors cooperative offering DRM free ebooks in multiple formats to readers around the world. You’ll find my books in both epub and mobi formats.

If you’ve got a Kindle, the mobi format will work for you. You can email the book to your Kindle, which is what I do, or hook the Kindle to your computer to transfer the file.

Epub format works for the Nook reader, and I believe for other devices too.

Note to readers outside the “Amazon countries”–BVC is the perfect outlet for you, because there is no price mark up. Ebooks are available at the same price no matter where you live.

Today only three of my books are available at BVC. They are The Bohr Maker, Memory, and The Dread Hammer.

Next to go up will be Deception Well and Vast, and the other books will follow.

TODAY ONLY: Check out the front page of Book View Café for a chance to win a free ebook of The Bohr Maker.

And check out the other authors at Book View Café too!