On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 3:04 PM, John Sessoms<[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Baen is actually the proprietor of the Webscription.net service I reference upthread, although there's now 3-4 publishers using it. They provide a number of formats via Webscriptions and have a nice selection of free offerings as well, including a half-dozen different CD's that are free to download & distribute. The CD's are HTML and plain text only IIRC. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
