To celebrate the launch of their redesigned website, quasi-academic publisher Verso Books are offering 5 non-fiction ebooks (6 outside US/Canada) in a mix of subject areas, free for a limited time.
To accompany the 80% off ebook sale through Wednesday, April 26th, 4 freebies are available worldwide, and due to rights issues, 1 additional book is free outside US/Canada. Simply add them to the cart from either the dedicated blogpost or the individual product catalogue pages linked from there, and the price will automatically be reset to $0.00.
- Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide by Italian philosopher and activist Franco Berardi, examining the relationship between capitalism and mental health worldwide.
- Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation by American prison scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore, a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Geographers, a decades spanning collection of her essays.
- Dissidents among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia by Russian author Ilya Budraitskis, a teacher at the Moscow School of Social and Economics Sciences, a collection of his essays about the post-Soviet evolution of Russia, and winner of the Andrei Bely prize in its original language.
- Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics by Troy Vettese, an environmental historian at Harvard University, & Drew Pendergrass, advocating a hybrid approach balancing the needs of modern society against those of the environment.
- only available outside US/Canada: The Cost of Living Crisis: (and how to get out of it) by Costa Lapavitsas, James Meadway, and Doug Nicholls, an exposé cum advocacy pamphlet on the roots of certain economic troubles and steps to mitigate it
The 5th (or 6th) freebie is a separate offer (ebook will also automatically drop to $0.00 upon adding to cart while valid), good through Thursday, April 27th, and is:
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire by Swedish author Andreas Malm, an associate professor of human ecology at Lund University, his manifesto examining the underlying history of and global responses to climate change activism and advocating in a provocative manner for a switch to less passive tactics. This was adapted into an eponymous film, and you can read more about the adaptation and some book recommendations from the filmmakers via this blog post.
NB: if you’ve previously picked up freebies or sale books from Verso before, you’ll have to re-activate your account on their website to migrate it to the new system, following the instructions on their website. Your library and order history should be fully ported, though it’ll show in random order instead of by date.
Offered DRM-free worldwide through Wednesday, April 26th (probably until around midnight Eastern Time) or Thursday, April 27th, available directly from the publisher’s webstore (requires account signup with valid email and billing address, but no payment info).
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