  urlLink Vancouver Sun : "...Doctorow doesn't even bother with setting up an online account for tips and donations.
You go to his site, pick the file format you like from more than a dozen, and download. Then you can read it on your desktop, notebook or PDA, print a copy for your own use, or even take to a print shop and have it leather bound, if you like.
Finally -- and this may be the most important aspect -- you can send complete copies to people without any restrictions, as long as you do it non-commercially. As any marketing major will tell you, nothing's better for promotion than word of mouth. 'E-books and paper books are intensely complementary. ' Doctorow says. 'It's a really good way to recommend the book to friends: just send them the book. ' This answers the question many people ask: 'But doesn't he lose money? ' The idea is that any lost sales will be offset by the publicity and promotion.
Tor Books, Doctorow's publisher, wouldn't provide sales figures, but did say that print sales haven't been hurt at all, and that the publicity has actually helped sales. 'What I am is the first publisher to release work simultaneous with its print publication with a major publisher under a Creative Commons licence. That is novel, but it's not utterly novel,' Doctorow says..." 
