Tor Books is thrilled to announce a new partnership with BitLit, a free app that lets you download ebook copies of your paper library. By partnering with BitLit, we’ve made it possible for you to be able to download an ebook for any Tor/Forge book you own in print!
Here’s how it works:
- Download the free app for iOS or Android.
- Take a picture of your bookshelf (a.k.a. a “shelfie”). The app will identify all of your books and tell you which books are eligible to bundle.
- Take a picture of your name on the copyright page to claim your bundled ebook.
Starting now, you will be able to download any Tor/Forge bundled ebooks for $2.99. As always, bundled ebooks from Tor/Forge are DRM-Free.
We can’t wait for you to try out our books on BitLit!
SO happy about this =)
I’d be much happier if it didn’t require writing in my books (which I won’t do)
@2: Well, they do have to have some way of making sure you couldn’t just hand the book off to your friend and they get a discount e-book from it, too.
So I’ve got hundreds of physical books, and easily more than a hundred of them are Tor.
To do this, I have to take them out, one at a time, to snap a picture of the cover, and then the copyright page?
Or do I take a picture of my bookshelf as it is (which is not horribly organized, but most of the books are vertical, spine out), and wait for it to scan them?
@@.-@ sef,
You take a picture of all your books and then the app will tell you which are eligible. Once you’ve done that, you need to redeem them one at a time.
glad you are making it so people have to prove they actually own the books and are not simply handing it off to a friend or checking it out from a library. People would do this and you are smart to prevent it. Making them DRM free though seems counter intuitive to me though …
Good you do something like this on Kobo as well? That is the ebook reader I have.
@6 BitLit is Kobo compatible. Their FAQ page explains how to load their books onto Kobo devices.
App doesn’t work on the Kindle Fire.
I have several Android devices (including a Samsung G4 and a Nexus 9), none of which seem to be compatible with the app. BitLit seems to have a bit more work to do.
Ah. The app is likely restricted to Anglo-Saxon countries. Newsflash, Tor: your physical books are actually legal to buy around the world. I hate the publishing world’s antiquated regional rights contracts.
So… if I have an eligible book, how do I actually PAY the $2.99 to buy it? I can’t find that information on the bitlit FAQ.
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It does not work with my Nexus 7 as its seems to required a device with a direct cellular connection. Guess WiFi is not good enough for them.
I don’t have a mobile phone. I have a Kindle Voyage and I have a digital camera. Can I make this work some how? I have tons of Tor books I’d love to convert to ebooks. I have a huge 5,000+ volume home library.
I work at BitLit, so I’m happy to answer these questions even if I’m late to the game here.
Great questions about which devices are eligible. The app requires a flash on your device. You can certainly use a device using wifi. Bookshelves are so shadowy that the app doesn’t work well without a flash.
You pay for the book as an in-app purchase just as you would pay for an in-app purchase in a mobile game. The Apple App Store or Google Play handles the payments.
If you have any more questions, send me a quick note to support [@@@@@] bitlit dot com. I’ll be able to respond fastest that way.
Thanks!