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Originally Posted by rixte
I'm eagerly collecting all of the Tor ebook signups - but I'm finding myself not eagerly reading them. So many of them are part of a series and I have no desire to buy them in hardcopy - first because I hate mixing formats in a series and second that I just find myself not wanting to deal with physical books usually.
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I'm right there with you. I'm appreciative of the books they gave us, but had hoped it might be an indication that they, and they're owners other labels, were finally getting into the ebook market in a more serious way than they've been in the past. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be happening. Prices are still way out of whack for one thing. Most of these 'free' books are now available for sale at ebook retailers, not for a list of $7.99 like they're pbook counterparts, but for a list of $14.00. Books that have been out as mass market paperbacks (not these free titles) for many years are available as ebooks with a list price based on the hardcover. They don't seem to get, or don't seem interested in getting, the current ebook market.
There are at least a half dozen books from this free program that I'd more than likely be interested in purchasing 2nd, 3rd, etc. books for if they were available. Instead I haven't even read the first book since there's no way to get more books (unless you go darknet).
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So I really hope that part of the new launch will be the availablity of much of their catalogue for purchase. Otherwise, no matter how shiny the new site is, I'll consider the whole thing a bit of a failure 
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I doubt it. They've said all along that while this giveaway was a way of promoting their new site that the site would have little to nothing to do with ebooks.