http://www.neilgaiman.com/feedback/vote.php?issue=freebook&show=results
tells us that 26,500 of you voted. (Or at least, 26,551 votes from 26,551 individual computers came in.)
And, with 28% of the vote -- as it had from the first hour the voting went up (well, it had 29% of the vote on the first day, a lead that was whittled away as the next 26,400 votes came in) is American Gods.
So that's what we'll put up. Details and links to follow....
It was really interesting. I don't think I would have put up American Gods as a first choice for free book myself -- mostly because a) it's really long and b) it divides people. As far as I can tell, for every five people who read it, one loves it utterly, two or three like it to varying degrees, and one hates it, cannot see the point to it and needs convincing that it's a novel at all. (Quite often the last person really likes some of the other books I've written, if they ever pick up anything else by me ever again.) But that's the fun of democracy, and American Gods has won more awards than any other single thing I've written.
Thank you to everyone who voted. It was fun. (And a special thank you to the web-goblin, who did all the heavy lifting.)
Labels: American Gods, birthdays, I can't believe that's the first American Gods label in this whole blog, voting