Great. Right after I spent the weekend talking up Tor.com as a source of free downloadable short stories by big-name genre authors to a salesguy at the Chapters Kobo display to entice people into buying e-readers with.
And of course they've made it unilateral by not leaving the downloadable versions up and encouraging people to buy the pay versions as a tipjar, but instead surprise-removing the lot with no notice to blog readers, as far as I can tell.
Also while locking a lot of people out of getting the e-reader-friendly files entirely because DRM and geo-restricted, and possibly with bonus Whispernet fee if buying via Amazon (not to mention taxes).
Sometimes I think it's not the Holtzbrink-whoever higher-ups who are blocking Tor's entry to a Webscriptions-like customer-friendly sales model, but Tor themselves, whacking their readers over the head with the rifle before shooting themselves in the foot.