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Baen CD program
Post by Henry Brown   » Fri Jan 30, 2015 2:27 pm

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Does anybody know if Baen books has discontinued the program where they put free CDs inside new hardback books? It has been awhile since I have seen a new release with a CD at the store.
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Post by thinkstoomuch   » Fri Jan 30, 2015 3:28 pm

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According to Toni Weisskopf they had fulfilled the function. Get people involved and used to E-books. IIRC.

I think she said this right after MoH came out.

No more free "drugs". Now you have to pay! :lol:

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Post by fallsfromtrees   » Fri Jan 30, 2015 3:42 pm

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thinkstoomuch wrote:According to Toni Weisskopf they had fulfilled the function. Get people involved and used to E-books. IIRC.

I think she said this right after MoH came out.

No more free "drugs". Now you have to pay! :lol:

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Post by BrightSoul   » Fri Jan 30, 2015 4:39 pm

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IIRC there was something about the program related to the Amazon deal. It was right around the time of that deal that CDs disappeared. Of course I may very well be wrong as well.
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Post by Weird Harold   » Fri Jan 30, 2015 4:44 pm

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BrightSoul wrote:IIRC there was something about the program related to the Amazon deal. It was right around the time of that deal that CDs disappeared. Of course I may very well be wrong as well.


Hearsay, but...

It was because of the Amazon deal that the direct downloads and ability to read online at fifth imperium were discontinued.

FWIW, Torch of Freedom was the last CD I know of.
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Post by Joat42   » Fri Jan 30, 2015 8:54 pm

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All the CD's are still available on thefifthimperium.com for those interested.

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Post by Michael Everett   » Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:21 am

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Joat42 wrote:All the CD's are still available on thefifthimperium.com for those interested.

Except that most of the actual book links on the CD pages have been disabled.
Some of the links are still active, so it's not a wasted click.
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Post by Weird Harold   » Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:54 am

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Michael Everett wrote:Except that most of the actual book links on the CD pages have been disabled.
Some of the links are still active, so it's not a wasted click.


So you have to download the entire .ZIP or .ISO copy of the CD. Big deal. :cry: :roll: Download TorchofFreedom.zip and you get all of the books (in all formats) up to that point in one download. or download the .ISO file and burn a CD so you have a permanent backup copy.
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Post by thinkstoomuch   » Sat Jan 31, 2015 2:33 pm

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Weird Harold wrote:So you have to download the entire .ZIP or .ISO copy of the CD. Big deal. :cry: :roll: Download TorchofFreedom.zip and you get all of the books (in all formats) up to that point in one download. or download the .ISO file and burn a CD so you have a permanent backup copy.


Do you know how long it took me to download all of them over my dialup connection? It was weeks. :lol:

All right I don't have the dialup now but I did then. Joe's site was very user friendly when 12 hours were up my provider automatically disconnected me. His site let me pause at 11 hours plus and restart after I disconnected and reconnected.

At the time it was a big deal. :-)

Just had to say it, :lol:
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Post by Joat42   » Sat Jan 31, 2015 2:59 pm

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Michael Everett wrote:
Joat42 wrote:All the CD's are still available on thefifthimperium.com for those interested.

Except that most of the actual book links on the CD pages have been disabled.
Some of the links are still active, so it's not a wasted click.


Yes, the book links where removed because of Baens deal with Amazon. Joe had a post up about it when the links where removed.

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