And on the third... Spoilers

tlb wrote:I was hoping for a new CD with the book; only have through Mission of Honor in searchable form, because I have not purchased the e-Arc versions.

JohnRoth wrote:The story I heard on that is that Amazon didn't like it; Been had to decimate the old free library to get their books on Amazon.

Louis R wrote:Unlikely, since Eastern Front was years before the Amazon deal.

Nor was the Free Library a sticking point in and of itself. Problem with the Library was that any book in it would automatically be free on Amazon - they do automated price matching - when authors were still getting a fair bit of revenue from those books on the Baen site [strangely, a lot of people like to go back and buy a book they've already read for free, just because]. Since there was no way to work around the price matching, and the whole point of the exercise was to start getting revenue via Amazon and the other big-box ebook outlets from the hordes of readers who were never able to figure out that they could get a better deal buying direct, most writers decided to pull most or all of their works from the Library at least until they could cobble together a Second Edition that could go up for sale while the original was in the Library.

Actually, according to Toni, the CDs were dropped because, like the Free Library, they had served their purpose, which was to promote ebooks and grow the market. Marketing money is now being spent on other things, and I wouldn't expect to see it done again, except maybe as an anniversary issue for WebScriptions, or something of similar significance. And the 25th Anniversary of WebScriptions is still 6 years off.

tlb wrote:Anyone else think it strange that after the beginning section on stripping grasers out of the captured Solarian fleet, that nothing ever came of that?

phillies wrote:

tlb wrote:Anyone else think it strange that after the beginning section on stripping grasers out of the captured Solarian fleet, that nothing ever came of that?

That's for the *next* book.

And it gave lots of background info.

tlb wrote:Anyone else think it strange that after the beginning section on stripping grasers out of the captured Solarian fleet, that nothing ever came of that?

phillies wrote:That's for the *next* book.

And it gave lots of background info.

ldwechsler wrote:Note the Afterward in the UH book. Weber wrote that he assumed a 20 year gap so that the young Saganami officers would be the captains of the ships for Honor's kids.

That certainly implies that we will find out in the next book, written somewhere in the future after numerous of those boring books on that boring planet put out by another publisher, at least one or two more in the Sword of the South Series, maybe a joint effort with Eric in the 163x universe and a couple of other things, we might get the book we all really want.

Vince wrote:

tlb wrote:Anyone else think it strange that after the beginning section on stripping grasers out of the captured Solarian fleet, that nothing ever came of that?

phillies wrote:That's for the *next* book.

And it gave lots of background info.

ldwechsler wrote:Note the Afterward in the UH book. Weber wrote that he assumed a 20 year gap so that the young Saganami officers would be the captains of the ships for Honor's kids.

That certainly implies that we will find out in the next book, written somewhere in the future after numerous of those boring books on that boring planet put out by another publisher, at least one or two more in the Sword of the South Series, maybe a joint effort with Eric in the 163x universe and a couple of other things, we might get the book we all really want.

Actually, I'm looking forward to reading those other stories too.

phillies wrote:I would have enjoyed the scene in which the SLN CNO advises the Gang of Five Mandarins that the missile attack on that final target included several remarkably late detonations, the death toll was THAT WOULD BE TELLING, and it appeared possible that the Grand Alliance was going to be slightly annoyed with the Solarian League.

kzt wrote:

phillies wrote:I would have enjoyed the scene in which the SLN CNO advises the Gang of Five Mandarins that the missile attack on that final target included several remarkably late detonations, the death toll was THAT WOULD BE TELLING, and it appeared possible that the Grand Alliance was going to be slightly annoyed with the Solarian League.

Well, that didn’t happen. Check the timeline. Fleet had hype red out previous to the operation. They had pretty much no idea what the hell they were talking about. It’s also like the US blaming the Israelis for 9/11.