What It Is
An exciting opportunity for our most loyal readers, the Dzanc Books eBook Club delivers a new eBook to its members on the first day of every month, with each selection coming from Dzanc and all of its imprints. In response to the proliferation of compatible devices and increased interest in eBook readings, Dzanc is committed to making it easier and less expensive for our readers to keep up on the newest releases from our catalog, and to delivering our titles in different formats for different kinds of readers.
Started in December 2010, selections so far have included acclaimed novels and short story collections by Robert Lopez, Roy Kesey, Stacey Levine, and Jeff Kass. Future books will be drawn from both our frontlist and the Dzanc Reprint Series, allowing us to deliver a wide variety of accomplished and emerging writers to our members.
Like all our eBooks, titles in the Dzanc eBook Club are delivered in DRM-free MOBI, ePub, and PDF formats, ensuring that club members will be able to enjoy it on their Kindle, iPad, Nook, Sony Reader, or whatever other platform they choose to use, as well as their PC and whatever newer devices might emerge in the near future.
The Dzanc eBook Club is one of the best ways to stay current with our newest books, and we truly believe it is the best value available to eBook writers anywhere. With subscriptions costing just five dollars per month or sixty dollars per year, members receive a 37% discount off the eBook list price of our selections, on top of knowing that they'll receive many of our new titles as soon as they're released, in the format best matching their choice of reading technology.
If you have any questions or concerns, please free feel to email Matt Bell at matt@dzancbooks.org.
How It Works
Option One: Get eleven books for $50, including five titles of your choice immediately upon signing up, plus a six-month subscription! This is a 43% savings compared to the cost of ordering the eleven titles individually in eBook form.
You may choose your initial five books from any that we have available in our regular catalog, as well as in our rEprint Series.
Upon signing up for the Dzanc eBooks Club, you will receive your five selected eBooks, plus the current month's selection within 48 hours. Then, on the first of each of the next five months, you will receive an email announcement containing a unique link, allowing you to immediately download and enjoy the month's book.
After the sixth month, members will be able to continue your subscription for just $5 per month, a savings of nearly 40% from the Dzanc eBooks cover price.
Option Two: If you already have some of the above bundled eBooks, you may also sign up for the eBook Club directly, starting with the current month's book, which will be delivered within 48 hours:
- $15: three-month subscription
- $30: six-month subscription
- $55: one-year subscription (includes one free month!)
On the first of each month, you will receive an email announcement containing a unique link, allowing you to immediately download and enjoy the month's book. With this option, you will be automatically resubscribed for the same period when you current subscription ends, unless you cancel through your Paypal account.
Our May 2012 Selection:
Shopping for a Better Country by Josip Novakovich
A collection of narrative essays on family, history, and travel from Croation American Josip Novakovich, a Whiting Writers' Award winner and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Having left his homeland of Yugoslavia, leaving behind kin and community, the author here captures significant portraits of what is lost, what is remembered, and what remains. Within those moments of fresh clarity of the past are the instances of repeated culture shock that never seem to lose their harsh edges.
Previous Selections
December 2010: Asunder by Robert Lopez
January 2011: How They Were Found by Matt Bell
February 2011: Love Doesn't Work by Henning Koch
March 2011: Pacazo by Roy Kesey
April 2011: Knuckleheads by Jeff Kass
May 2011: The Girl With Brown Fur by Stacey Levine
June 2011: From the Darkness Under Our Feet by Patrick Michael Finn
July 2011: Seven Spanish Angels by Stephen Graham Jones
August 2011: We Make Mud by Peter Markus
September 2011: A Tendency to Be Gone by Pamela Ryder
October 2011: Malcolm & Jack (and Other American Criminals) by Ted Pelton
November 2011: My Date with Neanderthal Woman by David Galef
December 2011: The Backslider by Seán McGrady
January 2012: A Catalogue of Everything in the World by Yelizaveta P. Renfro
February 2012: Animal Sanctuary by Sarah Falkner
March 2012: Fires of Our Choosing by Eugene Cross
April 2012: My Only Wife by Jac Jemc
May 2012: Shopping for a Better Country by Josip Novakovich