Baen’s free Cryoburn CDROM includes Bujold’s complete Vorkosigan series | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home:"Baen has published another book with a promotional CDROM pack-in, and (as with all the others) the CDROM is available for free download from the Fifth Imperium Baen CD repository. In either case, the contents are free to share and upload, but cannot be sold. The book is Cryoburn, the latest Miles Vorkosigan novel, and is worthy of mention for a couple of major reasons.This is a fantastic series and including the entire series (DRM free!) with the latest book is guaranteed to bring in more fans. Genius.
One reason is that it includes (in multiple DRM-free formats) the entirety, start to latest volume, of a smashing good 14-book series, based around the adventures of one of military SF’s most unusual heroes (though the first two books chronologically actually cover his parents)."
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My copy of the book arrived yesterday and I was quite surprised to see the CDROM. I think it is a great idea. I haven't looked at it closely, but on another sight it was mentioned that it did not include the book Memory.
ReplyDeleteYeah, on Teleread they surmise that Memory was not included because it was never a part of an Omnibus edition. It is either the usual mismanagement of a new technology project we see by publishers or a very shrewd scheme to get thousands of readers to order the one book to complete the series (to date).
ReplyDeleteBy shrewd I mean borrowing the same false scarcity schemes we see with collectible toys. (Like Beanie Babies!)