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Originally Posted by Pardoz
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. |
I know about the three-day deal - I took advantage of it at the time and can still download the books I bought then.
However, that's not the deal I was talking about. Both Tor and Baen have since mentioned an agreement in principle to start selling Tor books through webscriptions again. That deal does seem to have been seriously delayed, but it has been mentioned enough times in enough places that I have to believe that it's something they have been working on if nothing else.