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Originally Posted by Amalthia
I think Baen is still the biggest publisher that offers such a nice service for the moment though. 
I think Harlequin is another..but I'm not a big romance reader.
It's the other big publishers that are holding the industry at a standstill because a lot of the popular authors aren't signed onto the smaller publishers they are locked into contracts with the big name publishers.
I do hope what you predict will happen. Because this is getting quite frustrating wanting to buy ebooks but unable to find affordable copies of the ebooks I want to read. |
I continue to hear rumblings that Tor will have their eBooks up and running at a variety of outlets. And one of those outlets will apparently be Webscriptions -- with all the usual Baen/Webscriptions policies (
e.g. low prices, no DRM, bundles for additional discounts, etc.).
This long awaited deal has been hanging fire for several years! Back when Jim Baen was still alive, he reached agreement with the good folks at Tor. Said agreement was then shot down by a high-level bean counter at Tor's corporate parent. The deal stayed dead until there was a major upheaval in senior management at Tor's parent. The new CEO asked all his units to tell him what they were doing to remain relevant in the coming decades. The Tor folks pointed out the deal with Baen/Webscriptions as an example, and got it revived. There followed another long delay while lawyers wrestled out the contractual details. After yet more delay, we're now hearing that the only remaining issues are "techincal" (as in servers, workflows, eCommerce issues, and so on) and not either business or legal. So we should see another SF/Fantasy publisher doing things right any year now... er... Real Soon Now.
Xenophon