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Originally Posted by HarryT
Are any Tor books available as eBooks? Their much-talked-about arrangement with Baen appears to have come to naught; it would be nice to be able to buy their books as eBooks.
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Tor books
were available. You may recall their run up to the official launch of Tor.com, where they offered an ebook a week to people who signed up on their mailing list.
They
don't seem to be available now. The last statement I recall from Patrick Neilsen-Hayden, a Tor Senior Editor and Manager of Science Fiction, was that Tor's US parent, Macmillan, was digitizing the entire Tor catalogue, and things would be forthcoming over time. He also said the on-again/off-again deal with Baen was on-again, and was at the stage of dotting Is and crossing Ts by lawyers for both sides.
We haven't seen Tor's stuff appear on Webscriptions, and I suspect the hold up is on Tor corporate parent Holtzbrink's end. I don't think it's rooted in whether DRM is used the way the former hold up was. Holtzbrink is a global publisher with a number of imprints, and may simply feel they should do their own ebook distribution and set up the required channels, rather than using Webscriptions. I'd say they are still feeling their way, and trying to craft a comprehensive strategy across all their imprints. (Pablo Defendini, former Producer at Tor.com, freely admitted that what he was doing was seen as research by Holtzbrink, and his actions had visibility within the parent company far beyond Tor. Pablo wasn't a Tor employee, though he began as one: his boss when he ran Tor.com was a Macmillan VP in charge of their digital initiatives.)
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Dennis