You can download Steven Poole’s book “Trigger Happy” for free from his website, as a CC-licensed no-DRM PDF. Yay!
[…] I thought I’d try an experiment, and give away for free an “ebook†version of my first book, Trigger Happy, with no “digital rights management†whatsoever. It’ll work on anything that can read a PDF.
Trigger Happy is a book about the aesthetics of videogames — what they share with cinema, the history of painting, or literature; and what makes them different, in terms of form, psychology and semiotics. It was first published in 2000; this is the revised edition with the Afterword written in 2001. […] The book is offered under a CC license, for a limited time only. I’m not sure how limited that time will be, so grab it while it’s hot.
Thanks Steven.