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Old 05-13-2014, 01:47 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by pwalker8 View Post
It depends on how you define as back then. I define back then as back then, when Baen was starting up and I was reading on a palm pilot.

Fictionwise - June 2000
Diesel - 2004
Not sure about the others, but I'm pretty sure that none predated Baen and most had a slim selection. I'm not sure about most publishers. I can't think of any SF&F publishers who had their own ebook store, other than Baen. Tor used Baen for a bit,
Fair enough. Webscriptions started 8-10 months before Fictionwise. Peanut Press started in 1998 & Mobipocket in 2000. Of course selection wasn't great back then for digital books & more often then not a title wasn't available for sale when one went looking.
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