Vinge’s Rainbows End as free download

Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing writes:

Vernor Vinge has put the entire text of his magnificent, prescient, mind-alteringly good novel Rainbows End online as a free download. This was one of the best books of 2006, a book that practically defines what “post-cyberpunk” really means: stories about what happens when the world (and not the street) finds its own use for technology.

The book is in html format, which means that it can be converted to any number of formats (.txt, .pdb, .pdf…) and read on any open platform - palm pilots, phones, computers, ebook readers et cetera.

Link to html file; link to Rainbows End’s Amazon page