Well, the german publisher Holtzbrinck, the owner of TOR might have a different attitude than Mr. Michael Justus has.
Check the Forbes article written by an absolute expert for giving away the e-books - Cory Doctorow
The article is old, but I have just seen it referenced in another thread and I thought it was very relevant for this thread.
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http://www.forbes.com/2006/11/30/cor...1doctorow.html
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How did I talk Tor Books into letting me do this? It's not as if Tor is a spunky dotcom upstart. They're the largest science fiction publisher in the world, and they're a division of the German publishing giant Holtzbrinck.
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