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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Explain to me how it's different to person wanting to buy said e-book.
You can buy a old p-book used. You can't even buy a used e-book.
So they totally disappear from the marketplace. Just like the P-book going out of print, only more so. It doesn't matter to the buyer whether the copyright holder wants them to be "in print" and haven't figured out how to best do it, or whether they just don't want them in print.
Here's personal example. In 2008, I got a free copy (Baen's free library) of Doc Sidhe by Aaron Alliston. I finally got around to reading it last year. I liked it so much, I went out to buy the sequel and put in $4 to the "free" book. I wanted to pay the author.
I couldn't. It's out of print for e-books. I don't buy p-books any more. I could pirate the e-book, I suppose, but I want to pay the author. So I'm stuck...
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As the rights reverted, he pulled the book from Baen and is going to release it himself after a rewrite/update.
The original planned release date date was going to be mid 2013, though his cataract surgery either slowed it down or kiboshed it altogether as it doesn't seem to be in his latest timetable.
These things happen, but, I agree it's annoying and he should have left the old ones up until the new ones were ready.