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Originally Posted by nekokami
Here's a suggestion which publishers (who are completely tied to paper) will happily ignore: I think HC buyers should always get the eBook version for free with their purchase. They could then donate the HC to a local library, if they don't want to store it, which would make it that much more likely that others would read it and either buy it or look for other books by that author (or editor or whatever).
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Baen has put out hardcovers with CDs bound into them. The CDs have typically contained the entire text of the book itself, along with full text of previous books in the series (if any).
And full text of complete books by other Baen authors whose writings are likely to be of interest to people who would buy the hardcover the CD is bound into. All these books in the usual four formats that Baen currently supports; all with no DRM.
On top of that, the CDs are marked as free to copy or give away but not for sale. You can find their full content on various web sites -- quite legally, with the publisher and author's blessings.
Dean