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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
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.
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We are kind of half way between right now. If the copyright holder pulls the ebook, then there isn't much one can do, but I can't imagine that happening very often as everyone settles into the ebook market. Part of the issue is that Baen had a massive change in their ebook store not long ago. For all practical purposes, they no longer have an ebook store. They do still have monthly bundles, but you have to buy the bundle before the books actually hit the streets.
As I said earlier, over time, I think we will see authors putting their entire back catalog online so people can buy any book at any time. But that's going to take time, and I suspect there are quite a few older books that won't officially make it online until they go out of copyright.