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Originally Posted by acidzebra
Well, I am still a little puzzled at why people are upset over getting free stuff, even if that stuff was part of a series of more stuff which is currently not available in e-format. . . . .
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I don't think people are upset about getting the free ebooks; I'm certainly not. I think what most people are upset about is that they were given a tease without being told they were being teased. I would still have read the books, but had I known that they were only a tease, I would have put them at the bottom of the pile, waiting for the sequels to become available. I, for one, like to read complete series of books that I like but I buy either (sometimes both) ebook or hardcover versions, the latter only when it is an author I want to keep in my permanent collection.
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Originally Posted by acidzebra
I'm a little puzzled at the (IMO false) sense of entitlement I got from some of the posts.
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Again, I think the sense isn't one of entitlement -- we all realize that we are not entitled to have the sequels or any book available in ebook form. Rather it is frustration with how Tor went about it and continues to address the matter. Tor simply refuses to give any information other than "eventually". Eventually is simply too nebulous a time frame to wrap one's hopes around.
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Originally Posted by acidzebra
I'm a little puzzled why so many people seemed to think tor.com would be an ebook outlet of some kind.
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I am not puzzled about it. That is what I expected. To me there would be no other purpose for giving away a free ebook weekly in hopes that I would then visit the forthcoming Tor.com. Had I been told upfront that the website was going to be a blog site, have no ebooks for sale, and that the ebooks being given away were going to be all the ebooks Tor would have for quite sometime, I would have immediately known that Tor.com wasn't for me. I am not the least bit interested in short stories or blogs. But by not telling me that and by giving me the weekly ebook, I thought I was going to have another place to buy SF/F books (full-length novels) published by Tor authors.