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Originally Posted by vaughnmr
There is a thread in the Nook forum here noting that at least one of the agency 5 publishers has stopped releasing new ebooks to B&N due to their possible sale.
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Ah, Macmillan. The publisher which also doesn't approve of library ebooks because they don't make as much money off of them as paper books, which apparently wear out after a mere 10 uses. At least according to one of their high-level spokespersons, if I'm remembering that News thread accurately.
Too bad they own Tor, because otherwise I'd be able to ignore them entirely.
Speaking of which, at some point Tor decided to monetize some of their free Tor.com stories by removing the downloadable zipped HTML/PDF/ePub/Mobi versions from the site and selling them via Amazon/Sony/B&N/iTunes at 99 cents per pop.
Which is entirely their prerogative, since the actual stories are still available online for now, even if the format isn't as convenient for portable reading.
But it's unnecessarily geo-restrictive, since likely people outside the US/UK/Canada probably can't even get at those versions at all. Or they've an extra $2 Whispernet surcharge on top of the asking price.
I advise anyone who thinks they might want to read the remaining Tor.com stories on their reader to download whatever format they think they might need, while it's still there.