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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.
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Amazon tried this with their upgrade program (you got the book online for extra and since you could print it, you could always print to pdf, ps... so even if theoretically you could not download it, practically you could). It got nowhere as of now.
Outside of creating buzz and for marketing purposes I see no rational reason from the publishers perspective to do that. Baen does that with their cd's and even allows their content to be posted online for free (AAC was #9, HHNF will be #10 and 1634 Baltic war will be #11), but as with their free library it makes good marketing sense since most of their popular books are long series and offering the older books for free may entice new readers who otherwise would balk at the required investment.
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