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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The logic of a company still groping for a coherent digital strategy.
Tor sister company St. Martin's has recently offered a few digital editions of mysteries to promoter particular authors and get folks to sign up for a mailing list. Tor parent company Holtzbrink is unifying their various imprints under the Macmillan umbrella.
Tor probably doesn't have a digital edition of the next Wright Chaos novel, and even if they do, they have no way for you to buy it.
Right now, they are doing what the Baen Free Library was originally intended to do: promote authors, and spur sales of dead tree editions. Back when the Free Library began, Jim Baen didn't see pure electronic publishing as a source of profit. It's become so with the Webscriptions offerings, but that was after the fact.
Give Tor and Holtzbrink time. At least they are aware of ebooks, and I expect we'll see them offered for sale down the road.
Meanwhile, you can always buy the paper edition... 
(BTW: I know John Wright. He'll be pleased you liked the first enough to want the second.)
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Dennis |
Count me as another who'd like to buy the second book... in bits. I'm now restricting paper purchases to the very few books that I really love, and those that I consider as "comfort reads." Everything else has become "bits and library only."
Can you suggest to John Wright that he poke his publisher about e-Editions? He's missing at least a few sales due to the lack of bits.
There's no more room on the shelves (or the floor, or the walls, or in the basement and attic, or...).
Xenophon