Weightless Books

Weightless Books is an independent DRM-free ebooksite devoted to ebooks of all sorts. We are excited by the new range of ereaders available which mean that the printed pages we publishers spend so long making pretty, clear, and readable, will now be able to be read onscreen—which is one reason why whenever possible we will always sell PDFs of titles (not coincidentally still our biggest seller of the modes available). As time goes by more titles will be available in epub, mobi, and lit.

Weightless Books are waitless—when you order you will immediately be taken to a page where you can download your book. You will also be emailed an url from which to download your book. If you register, all your books are available at any time in your Library.

We sell DRM-free ebooks because we believe those who buy ebooks here should be able to move them around between their devices at will.

What we’re hoping to do here is to make this the first site to go to for interesting ebooks from independent presses.

Please be kind to these independent publishers and don’t pirate these titles. Thank you!

Weightless Books opened (a soft opening) for business in March 2010. Please excuse any mess and we apologize ahead of time for any mistakes we make as we learn. Reader feedback is always appreciated.

At first this site will be small, later, it will gain, if not weight, then heft. Look around, see if we’ve got something you like. Either way, come back in a bit as we’ll always be adding more titles.

Weightless lead off with books and zines from Small Beer Press and Blind Eye Books. We now have books and journals from Fairy Tale Review Press, Featherproof, Lethe, and many more. Titles are added every Tuesday and there will be a slow expansion to include more publishers. At the moment we are not open to submissions but that will change at some future point.

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Site design by Michael J. Deluca with help from Diana Cao, Felice Ling, and others using WordPress on Macs in 2010 (and on!).

Thanks for stopping by!

Weightless Books is run by two enthusiasts:

Gavin J. Grant is a firm believer in the do-it-yourself. He started a zine, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, in 1996, cofounded Small Beer Press, an independent publishing house with his wife, Kelly Link, and in 2010 launched WeightlessBooks.com, an ebooksite for independent presses. He has been published in the Los Angeles Times,
Christian Science Monitor, Bookslut, Xerography Debt, Scifiction, The Journal of Pulse Pounding Narratives, and Strange Horizons. He co-edited The Best of LCRW (Del Rey) and for five years co-edited the fantasy half of The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (St. Martin’s Press). He lives with his wife and daughter in Massachusetts.

Michael J. DeLuca‘s short fiction has appeared, among other places, in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Interfictions, Apex Magazine, Clockwork Phoenix, Abyss & Apex and Onirismes. He attended the Odyssey Writing Workshop in 2005, has volunteered at Small Beer Press for longer than he cares to admit, and is a member of The Homeless Moon writers’ cabal. He lives in Boston for the nonce, surrounded by civil war era graveyards and ramshackle taverns as far as the eye can see. He brews beer, bakes bread, hugs trees, and builds websites. Read his blog at michaeljdeluca.com.

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