My book Shareware Heroes: The renegades who redefined gaming at the dawn of the internet is available to buy again. Read about the rise of indie game publishing and digital distribution alongside stories of indie devs big and small making their way years before Steam existed. https://payhip.com/b/hbTL5

The book includes coverage of how Apogee, id Software, and Epic MegaGames changed gaming with their cool games and grassroots marketing as well as how shareware empowered solo devs to make weird games and put them out into the world. Plus shareware "libraries"/catalogues, licenceware, and much more.

I'm calling it a "Revised Edition" as it fixes all known errors from the original release, but I haven't changed much else besides removing Unbound branding. I'd love to do a new (possibly expanded) physical edition, but it's not on the cards anytime soon; in the meantime, if anyone in Australia (or willing to pay for shipping from Australia) wants to buy one of my spare author copies, hardcover or paperback, hit me up.

I'll also be putting out a "Shareware Edition" in the next month or so as a fun experiment — I'll break the book up into a few "episodes" and release one as a free PDF with an old-school shareware notice at the start and an id/Apogee-style registration/full-version-advertisement splash page at the end that links to a "registration" page.

@matt_diamond Don't tempt me! Now I'm thinking about all the obscure and forgotten places I could try to share the PDF.