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Originally Posted by NatCh
There are a few (less than a dozen, I think) Tor books on the Baen Webscriptions site. I don't know what that might mean, though.  |
Except for the latest (OAR by David Weber), you cannot buy any of them, just download those you have bought in the short period the Tor deal was available (I bought 2 and Webscriptions guarantees they will always be available for download).
Unfortunately TOR (or whomever, Holtzbrinck...) seems to subscribe to the point of view that e-books are competitors for p-books, so they require similar pricing, hence OAR priced at 18$ is about 70% of the 26$ hc price, and myself and others expressed our dismay in the Baen Bar that Baen/Webscriptions played along with that. Now, being a book by Mr. Weber, it can be regarded as a special case, though I am still dissapointed that at least they did not offer it as an e-arc when I would gladly have paid 18$ for the privilege of reading several months in advance...As an aside I easily got a print arc of OAR on Ebay for 14$ total price about 2-3 months prior to publication, and only the seller and USPS benefited...
Ultimately that is the crux of the matter, how you regard e-books vs p-books, competitors or helpers, and drm to a large extent clouds the issue since an 18$ e-novel drm-free is still way too expensive unless you get something extra (bundle of books, e-arc so you read it several months in advance...)