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Originally Posted by plantedbypiggies
I know, that doesn't make much sense. However, if you look at the authors that Tor is releasing this way, all of them have released works for free before. Mercedes Lackey and David Drake both through Baen, Walton and Scalzi through their own web pages (Old Man's War was originally an online free e-book that Patrick Nielsen Hayden liked), Robert Charles Wilson released Spin as a free download to Hugo voters, and Buckell has the first third of Crystal Rain up for free on his web page. So, there's no new players, just a different avenue.
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Yea, it makes a lot of sense for TOR if they cause people to look to their site in the future for that type of book. Not everyone knows where else it might be available. Isn't that why they are doing it in the first place?
Dale