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Originally Posted by nekokami
The most optimistic interpretation I can think of is that the publishers are all planning to jump onto the Baen first-taste-is-free bandwagon, so the first books aren't for sale because they're going to be given away, but the plans are a little slow getting started.  |
We can hope...
Ballantine/DelRey are a unit of the Random House Publishing Group, which includes Ballantine Books, Ballantine Reader's Circle, Del Rey, Fawcett, Ivy, Modern Library, One World, Presidio Press, Random House, Random House Trade Paperbacks, and Villard.
Random House is in turn a unit of Bertelsmann, which is active in an assortment of media areas:
* RTL Group, Europe's biggest broadcaster
* Gruner + Jahr (a magazine publisher, the biggest in Europe)[4]
* Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG)
* Random House, the world's largest trade book publisher
* Direct Group, the world's largest book and music club group
* Arvato AG, an international media and communications service provider
(The Direct Group includes US book club operations like the Science Fiction Book Club)
My impression is that Random House (and Bertelsmann in turn) is one of the publishers that simply doesn't get it in regards to ebooks.
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Dennis