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Originally Posted by Apache
If she signed a contract allowing the free use, then she does not have the right to complain. Misunderstanding a contract you willingly sign is not an excuse. That is what lawyers are for.
Apache
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Nope. Contract law requires a 'meeting of the minds' for the contract to be valid. It's the responsibility of both parties to make their positions clear to the other. Changing your mind isn't an excuse but misunderstanding is. The question is which happened here?
Her explanation sounds valid to me, i.e. she thought the 'free' ebooks were only going to be distributed in conjunction with a pbook purchase. Of course I wasn't involved in the negotiations so I'm basing my opinion on public statements of which Baen hasn't made any. (Well, not for their side. It appears that they were the ones who passed on Bujold's 'thoughts' on the matter.)
Arrgh! Maybe I'm going nuts. I just checked to verify my statement that Baen hadn't said anything on their side of the dispute & now I can't find any statements at all about it. Nothing on 5th Imperium (except a CD entry with no file attached), nothing on Baen, nothing on Dendarii. Maybe I imagined it all.....