I tweeted them today about this, and Irene Gallo replied with a link to the June 2010 post on Tor.com that ATDrake mentioned:
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/07/fee...ader-revisited
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Starting tomorrow, twelve of the first thirteen original stories published on Tor.com will be available on a bunch of e-book platforms, including the Kindle store, Apple’s iBooks store, Barnes & Noble’s e-bookstore, the Kobo store, and the Sony Reader store, for 99 cents each. These are in effect little e-chapbooks, complete with the original Tor.com art on their “covers,” designed to work properly with the current generation of e-book devices and reading programs.
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As these stories become available for sale, they’ll remain freely available on Tor.com. We’ll be taking down the downloadable versions—the ePub and PDF files, and so forth—but the stories will still be complete on the site, along with their downloadable audio. This is all an experiment on everybody’s part, Amazon’s and Apple’s and B&N’s and everyone else’s, and ours as well.
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First off, how nice were they to get back to me so promptly? Yay for technology and polite people!
Secondly. Still sucks. What was once DRM-free and available internationally is now DRM infected and georestricted to the US. (I don't have a problem with the Pay A Dollar for a Pretty Cover idea, though. I'd pay it. But I am a sad, sad individual who buys variant cover comics).