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I decided a couple of years ago to stop buying pbooks except for some technical and hobby books that don't translate well to a small screen. Some fiction I buy as pbooks but that's exclusively for my kids. That means if the fiction I want to read is not in ebook format at a reasonable price I won't be reading it. For series, I will not read the series until all the books are available in ebook form at a reasonable price.
Maybe, I'll check the book out at the library but my county library rarely has books that I care to read and interlibrary loans take forever.
Tor blew the promotion. Period. I, too, was suspicious when the first book was available only as PDF but figured they were learning and adopted a wait and see attitude. Tor should be upfront about when and what will be available as ebooks. They also should adopt a better attitude when it comes to dealing with potential customers. IMO, this is quite close to a bait and switch scheme. "Here, have some free ebooks!" and then when the promotion is over you're expected to buy pbooks. Ummm, thanks but no thanks.
Lack of clear communication on their part and a jump to (obvious to me) conclusions on our part.
There are plenty of other publishers with substantial ebook catalogs that will be seeing my money.
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