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It's the fact that they're doing it without notification that is troubling. Most forums require you to supply a real name for registration purposes, but publicizing personal information without warning and by default is not something most reputable sites do. I am sure it is simply an oversight in the site design, and hopefully they will correct it so that people will be able to make this decision for themselves. Although, as I mentioned, you can go back and edit the name field - but for that you need to know the issue is there, hence my post.
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Abraham, Daniel - A Shadow in Summer Adams, C.T. and Cathy Clamp - Touch of Evil Baker, Kage - In the Garden of Iden Buckell, Tobias - Crystal Rain Butler, S. C. - Reiffeins Choice Carver, Jeffrey - Battlestar Galactica David, Peter - Darkness of the Light Drake, David - Lord of the Isles Elliott, Kate - Spirit Gate Lackey, Mercedes and James Mallory - The Outstretched Shadow Learner, Tobsha - Soul Lindskold, Jane - Through Wolfs Eyes Modesitt Jr, LE - Flash OShea, Patti - In the Midnight Hour Pedrosa, Cyril - Three Shadows Priest, Cherie - Four and Twenty Blackbirds Sanderson, Brandon - Mistborn Scalzi, John - Old Mans War Schroeder, Karl - Sun of Suns Turtledove, Harry - The Disunited States of America Walton, Jo - Farthing Watts, Peter - Starfish Wilson, Robert Charles - Spin Wright, John - Orphans of Chaos This just lists authors and titles. Most were available in multiple formats. ______ Dennis Last edited by DMcCunney; 09-12-2008 at 09:49 AM. |
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Thanks for the heads up wayrad.
I did register with Tor.com yesterday, but I haven't found any free ebooks. Am I looking in the wrong places? |
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I appreciate being able to have an online "handle," though I'm not especially paranoid about people learning my "true identity." (I've posted a couple of pieces of information in my sig that would make it obvious for anyone who cares to find out.) But I agree that if a site is going to make your personal information public, it should disclose that at registration. |
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Just to note, the free e-books Tor originally gave away ARE still up on the site. At least for the moment. They just took the links down.
But if you find the links somewhere else, such as in the old emails, or on a blog post that links to the actual files, you can still snag them. At least at the moment. Last night someone mentioned still being able to download them, and I pointed out the files were still there on the server. Torie, funny person that she is, replied, "They have indeed been taken down from the server. The promotion is over, sorry folks!" But I just checked at that blog post and the links still work. Better snag them fast if you missed them. I have no idea how long it might take until Torie thinks to actually check the links and realize, gosh, these do still work. Last edited by Robotech_Master; 09-14-2008 at 11:13 AM. |
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![]() Thank you for the link - snagged them all now! Cheers, Terry. |
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BTW, I just heard from author Steven Brust that he thinks some of his books will be in the Baen ebook deal.
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Just a reminder, this could be folks' last chance to snag those books. People are insisting to Torie that, no, the links really do still work, so sooner or later she'll get wise.
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Where do you actually get the free books? (link?) Thanks!
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Thanks!
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I did some limited exploring at TOR and found about a half dozen free downloads for short stories. http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=...t&view=stories
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