Thread: Amazon says 'will have to capitulate and accept Macmillan's terms'
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Old 02-02-2010, 11:28 AM   #171
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Originally Posted by Lemurion View Post
Macmillan, through their Tor subsidiary, has been working on a deal with Baen.
Not quite. They had a deal in place with Baen back in 2006 and made a bunch of books available through the Webscriptions store - you can find a list here. Holtzbrinck killed it after about three days (per the head of Webscriptions: "It's official that Tor's corporate parent pulled the plug on the project for the foreseeable future. Don't blame Tor or Tom. Strictly uber-corporate bone headedness.").

Four years after the deal went bust, the only legal electronic copies available of a couple of those books are the unproofed ARC copies that are still for sale at Baen (I'm guessing the ARCs fell through the cracks in the contract). Several more titles aren't legally available electronically at all.
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