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Originally Posted by evilrooster
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You're still looking at the interactions with Tor.com as though it is a commercial site, and you are the customers, and Tor is a supplier. This means that you (customers) are always right, and can pretty much take any tone you like with Tor representatives (CSR's), because it's their job to satisfy you.
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Yes, sadly, their use (with permission) of the Tor brand name, and the link to Tor Books, did and still does tend to make the site look as though it is an affiliated site. Since this is not the case (something they should really consider placing in large bold type somewhere on the site), you are correct that their tone can be whatever they wish to make it.
However, if they are planning to use Tor's brand name, then Tor Books should think long and hard before allowing them to continue to do so. For myself, the attitude of PNH and Tor (the blogsite) has completely, totally, and probably forever turned me off of Tor books.
Is that fair?? Hell no ... but if PNH wants to laugh at me or anyone else for being put off by a tease that offered first in a series books - with no chance of getting other books in the series (unless it was in a pbook), and then later in the same post state that all books in a series really should be made available .... and then if Torie wants to state there is no affiliation at all between Tor and Tor Books, while PNH states that .... well, yes Tor does use the Tor brand name with permission .... well, guess what, they both lose all credibility with me.
Now that we've established that PNH and Torie have no credibility (with me anyway) ... and that Tor.com and Tor Books have nothing to offer me personally, well, the argument is really over for me. I don't need or want the free books (knowing that the additional books in the series will not be available), so those have been deleted, I don't care for the tone over at Tor.com ... so I won't bother to go back there, and since I'm not purchasing anymore pbooks Tor Books will no longer be on my reading list.
I'd rather purchase ebooks from a company that creates and promotes ebooks then get any number of "free" ebooks from a company or site that is trying to con me into purchasing more pbooks.
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Originally Posted by Robotech_Master
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Very well discussed by the way. Karma going your way.