I love this idea, but can't help but be a little disappointed with this. I'm going to pay, over the average, but it's mostly to encourage more of these in the future rather than any actual desire for the books included here.
The only one here I'm definitely willing to shell out for is the Gaiman/McKean book. I love John Scalzi, but
Old Man's War is his first novel and I have it three ways already (paper, free pdf from Tor.com's launch, jailbroken .epub). The webcomic collections are, well, webcomic collections. Digital versions of print collections of digital comics. None of the ones involved have bonus material I'm especially interested in. If it were
Schlock,
OOTS or
Dresden Codak I'd be happy to pay. Not to mention that .pdf isn't the best (or even a good) way to read comics.
As for the below-the-average goods, not bad but not amazing. The new Cory Doctorow, but then all his books are CC licensed anyway, and that one went up
on his site around the same time the bundle launched (along with his Charles Stross collaboration,
Rapture of the Nerds, which I am much more interested in). Both the Bacigalupi and Link books are single-author short story collections. I usually only go for such collections when I'm really into an author, have run out of novels by them and know they are good enough I'm willing to read the filler that always pads such collections. Paolo Bacigalupi is supposed to be that good but I've yet to dive into his novels (I have
The Windup Girl but keep finding things that interest me more). I've not heard a thing about Kelly Link before this.
I'm vaguely interested in the Mercedes Lackey volume, which is actually a collaborative world superhero concept that sounds like a fresh take on the old
Wild Cards series. Could be good. As for
Zoo City... the reviews I've seen don't really make me giddy with anticipation.