Baen has long been in the habit of bundling CD-ROMs into the first printings of selected hardcovers, containing unencrypted electronic versions of the book itself, related books, and other books by the same or other authors. These CDs may be copied and shared, but not sold commercially.
It is startling to consider just how long they have been in this habit. Baen has just released its sixteenth CD-ROM, in the hardcover edition of John Ringo and Travis S. Taylor’s book Claws That Catch. (Though, to be fair, not all of those sixteen were actually bundled into books—some were made expressly as convention and trade show handouts.)
As with all the CDs that come before it, the Claws That Catch disc can be freely downloaded or viewed on-line at the Fifth Imperium Baen CD page, or downloaded via BitTorrent—all with Baen’s consent.
(Found via the Mobileread forum.)
