From: "P. J. Alling"
I refuse to use proprietary distribution formats because it locks you into one vendor. Baen Books, a publisher of Science Fiction offers their books in HTML format, (and a few others as well), but you can read them in any browser, and they can't reach into your machine and erase something you've already purchased.
They also provided them on CD bound into the back of some of their hard cover editions. The ones I'm familiar with were books by David Weber and John Ringo, where the book on offer was the latest in a series of tales set in the same "universe". I'm pretty sure there were others.
One of the later Honor Harrington series by Weber had a CD that included all the novels & short stories preceding it. I can't remember what else was on that CD.
The same applied for the "last" in the Posleen series by John Ringo. I think it was the hard cover of "When the Devil Dances". IIRC, that CD also included the Belisarius series by David Drake and Eric Flint.
The OTHER benefit of Baen's way of doing things is you also did not HAVE to read them as HTML; you could read them in plain text without the HTML formatting - which I found more convenient.
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