News that makes me very happy.

[theweaselking]

Tor books has apparently signed on with Baen, to provide some of Tor's author's books through Webscriptions. Webscriptions is Baen's completely DRM-free e-book service, where all the titles are available, full and complete, in most any format you want, with no technical restrictions on what you're able to do with the files. If they don't have the format you want (coughPDFcough), you can just load up the DOC or RTF file and export to PDF, if that's your thing.

No formal press release yet - pnh is posting about it to the bar, Baen's web forums, though, and autopope has posted about how he is eager to have his books go out through there.

I'm excited. This looks like a good thing.

(PS: Baen's Free Library, with its selection of downloadable sample books, is here. Webscriptions' free section with mostly, but not completely, the same book list is here. Webscriptions' registration is free, and you get the current month of books available for free download by signing up- that list (and the signup link) is here. The list of all books currently available through Webscriptions is here - it's $15 US for all the books from a month. None of this counts the massive selection of books that Baen gave out on CDs accompanying hardcover releases with instructions to spread them far and wide, as you felt like - I've got 7 or 8 of those around, and I recall that corruptedjasper was the one helping me fill the holes in my collection.)

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[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

http://oberon.zlynx.org/ -- 9 Baen CDs, these days. The only restriction on them is that you have to distribute them as complete CDs rather than separate files (but you don't necessarily have to download the whole thing, just if you put them up for others you have to put the whole thing up).