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WOW...I am surprised that my comments stirred the emotions so greatly. Let me "splain" my disappointment.
1. I am a long time subscriber to Baen, in fact I would venture to say I am one of the very first to start downloading from them and have conversations with Eric Flint and Jim (before his death of course) regarding how great a job they were doing in presenting things for free and without the DRM like some of the early competitors were doing. So I know the history and the rationale for their business plan and the desire to please the fan base...or at least I did.
2. I very well understand about downloading other formats. When I buy a book from Baen I am free to download it in as many formats as they offer and as often as I like. I always download as MS Lit,RTF and what ever other format strikes my fancy at any given time. So I do have it available to play with as I see fit.
3.If Baen has chosen to present books in the Kindle format why not the Sony? As has been mentioned the Sony format will keep the integrity of the graphics, and maps and drawings will show up quite well in black and white, other images are just for fun viewing but some of the maps are things I want to study in more detail...thats just me.
So bottom line is yes I know all about the ways to convert books, the advantages of RTF in certain cases all the other minutia that has been mentioned......but and its a big but, why can't they offer it in the LRF format? Kindle has been out only a short time compared to the Sony....I rest my case....thanks for all the discussion, its interesting to get the feedback........
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