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Originally Posted by ATDrake
Toni Weisskopf, editor of Baen, did warn people on Baen's Bar to make backups of their stuff several days prior to the changes to the Baen Free Library and the catalogue about a week or two ago, just before the BFL was gutted and the older monthly bundles had to be repriced due to some of the original selections being no longer available and some of the old purchase downloads disappeared due to author/agent demanding yanking of all the files.
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I must admit I was shocked by the state of the BFL when I went to look at it a couple of days ago. I suppose we should be glad they waited so long before gutting everything Jim had worked so hard to build. Difficult to believe he's been gone over six years.
I don't think he would have liked the idea of getting into bed with Amazon either, but thanks to the sheer unbelievable stupidity of Apple and the mainstream publishers (not to mention their greed), Amazon now in effective control of the entire market.
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Originally Posted by ATDrake
But certainly it's going to have to be a holiday project for many of us.
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I downloaded the bundles as I went along. I just have to sort out 324 files now. Rename, identify and remove duplicates, etc....
