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Originally Posted by Darqref
A side note: Couple years back, Baen released a CD enclosed with the first edition of War of Honor by David Weber. This disc included the ebook editions of the whole Honor Harrington series, plus additional books by other authors who had contributed stories to the Honor Harrington anthologies. Plus high-res versions of the cover art, etc. The disc cover said "This disk and its contents may be copied and shared, but NOT sold". A couple of months later, a Barfly asked if he could give away copies at an SF convention. Jim Baen replied "Sure, be my advertising department for free. I love it."
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Baen subsequently bundled similar CDs into other hardcovers, and there are about twenty currently in existence. Fifteen were bound-in CDs, and five were other promotional efforts. They contain a good bit of material
not on the Free Library web site. The site also mirrors the Project Gutenberg SF CD.
The CDs even contain things like the images stamped on the CD, so you can create your own exact duplicates to pass around. I asked Jim in email a while back about creating a custom compilation version: I wanted to produce a CD that contained
only the books, and not the art galleries, MP3s, movies, etc., as I could fit just the books on one CD. He had no problem with that either.
Interested parties can find the complete set at
http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com, as ISO images or big Zip files, and the site has a function that will let you extract individual books from CDs as well.
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Dennis