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Originally Posted by JSWolf
DrMoze, this is an ongoing problem. And a serious problem too. We have books that are part of a series. yet as far as eBooks go, we don't get the complete series in eBook form. We get part of the series. Usually it's like the last book or two as eBooks. But what we need is to have series in eBook form be complete. This is one reason people won't make the switch. And it's going to hurt eBooks big time if it's not sorted.
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Well, if it is the last couple of books, that's more of an issue than just releasing the first book of a series. Fortunately, TOR wasn't guilty of that.
That being said, some of the books that they did give away have first books that can stand on their own. The two I've read, Old Man's War and Crystal Rain, pretty much stand on their own. While I can read more, I don't feel wanting with the others not being available in E-Book form.
It seemed obvious to me from their first E-book release, which was on PDF only, that they weren't really thinking that hard about E-books as a sellable product. They were looking at it as a freebie that they could give away to promote their new web site and some of the series that they publish so that they can sell more p-books. Considering that E-Books is still very much a niche thing right now, that's actually quite understandable. I think if anything this promotion has made them more aware of the demand for E-books than before and now they need to figure out what kind of approach they want to make for it. I wouldn't expect them to come up with a full solution in 6 months.
Jason