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Originally Posted by starrigger
Why? It's been reported repeatedly here that Tor is working to get their ebook store up and running. Are you mad because it's taking them longer than they thought?
Maybe that just illustrates the point that it's easier to say, "Put your ebooks up for sale," than it is to put a system in place to do it.
Ereads has been at this for years, and their system still isn't working smoothly. It's not for lack of trying. But it is, in part, because sales have not been high enough to allow them to expand their production capability.
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Yes, actually. Why couldn't TOR have started selling ebooks last year? What about the year before? Or the one before that?
Most of the other publishers I want to buy from were already trying to sell ebooks 2 and 3 years ago. Why is it taking TOR so long to figure out what everyone else seems to know? Why did TOR screw around the last 3 years?
TOR has no system in place to release current ebooks at the same time as paper. They are the one major publisher that has no system, not a good one, not a bad one, but none at all. What makes you think the system will magically appear when the ebooks are on Webscription (Baen's website)? Why couldn't TOR have started creating the system last year, or the year before?
BTW, I'm not asking for cheap or DRM free. I just want to be able to _buy_ the ebooks. I have no confidence that TOR will accomplish that.