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Originally Posted by rhadin
What disgruntles me is not so much that the sequels aren't currently available in ebook form but that (1) Tor won't disclose a target date when they expect to make the books available, (2) Tor has made at least 1, possibly more, of the sequels available in Kindle format (which leaves me out as a Sony owner and which makes me wonder why if they could create a Kindle version they couldn't make other versions of the same book), and (3) the refusal of customer service to even acknowledge receipt of e-mails asking about availability -- even if the answers are vague.
If I knew that Tor planned to start rolling out ebooks beginning on October 31 and weekly thereafter, I would calendar that date to begin looking for the books that interest me and I would be happy enough (of course, if they told me it would be October 31, 2012, I wouldn't be soothed at all!). Tor could so easily resolve this "problem" simply by giving realistic target dates (even if they slip a little) and by teaching customer service to acknowledge inquiries.
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You are assuming that TOR has a target date of some sort. It seems obvious that there are some impediments that they are trying to work out.
Considering that when they started this promotion it seemed pretty obvious that they weren't very savvy about E-Book formats (with the first book being released in PDF only), I doubt that TOR had any plans on the table to release e-books. One of the benefits of this promotion is that they got a lot of feedback and may have pushed forward plans to release e-books where there weren't any plans before.
Some have suggested that this is a misstep, but when the vast majority still read p-books and prefer to read p-books, that is where the focus is going to be. Like it or not, we are the minority.
Jason