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Originally Posted by DrMoze
Heck, I spent many minutes perusing most (not all!) of this thread, and some of the comments on the Tor site, so might as well weigh in with my 2 cents' worth (or less).
Honestly, I am more in line with Tor on this issue than with the complainers. I mean, look at this thread title even. "Screwed" by Tor? For giving away free samples? I find complaining about that to be silly also.
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Personally I think the term "suckered" fits better IMHO what Tor did than "screwed". We were suckered into reading new authors in an ebook format, implying that more ebooks would be available for sell (i.e. they used the free ebooks as advertisements but according to Tor.com it was to advertise the Tor,com forum not Tor Publishing ebooks).
So we read them, got hooked by the bait and found out that the bait was all there was. So we were suckered into (apparently) unrealistic expectations. Like Taylor said, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
And according to Torie, they never "intended" to fool anyone. I can see that happening if they got this bright idea and never really thought it through to imagine how someone else might interrupt their advertisement. But once it was pointed out, the polite (and IMO smart) thing to do was to say, "Sorry, we never thought anyone would see it that way. We only wanted to attract attention to Tor.com." But instead they came across angry & rude (again IMHO)