Comments on: Free Download of “Spirit Gate”

By: Tor Books new website and Free Stuff | Praeter Naturam

Tor Books new website and Free Stuff | Praeter Naturam — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:37:01 +0000

[...] Genre have a good link to the freebies currently available from Tor Books, which includes the whole of Kate Elliot’s Spirit Gate (Crossroads) book. This is becoming [...]

By: Carol

Carol — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:51:32 +0000

Sigh, my download never worked.

And I’ve finished Shadow Gate (I have a trip next week to Hanoi)…lucky I have Shadow Isle or what would I do?

By: Carol

Carol — Sat, 17 May 2008 03:16:20 +0000

It didn’t work for me.
Is that because I’m from down under?
Any suggestions anyone?

By: Charles G.

Charles G. — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:42:32 +0000

Ok madam….I’m pretty sure now…it works.
thanks

By: Hugh Agnew

Hugh Agnew — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:57:52 +0000

And lo and behold, it works, but because the “batch processing” approach slowed down the work on our registrations, the downloadable book we get is not yours, Kate, but the current week’s selection — which is actually good, because I’ll start buying and reading all your stuff, especially the series that has the rather East European setting, since that’s my field of history … and then you’ll get (I hope) royalties from the sales!

Not to cast aspersions on the author or work for this week, either. I’m sure it will be good for me to branch out!

By: Laurie

Laurie — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:01:30 +0000

That’s kind of an amusing response from Tor. The idea is 21st century, but the implementation is not. (I work in batch processing for a living, so it kind of tickles my inner I.T. geek that they’re doing 1980s ‘once per week’ batches instead of the event driven stuff that’s so pervasive in our on-demand processing environment.)

That said, here I go to sign up!

By: Kate Elliott

Kate Elliott — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:30:23 +0000

Okay, guys: here’s what I heard back from Tor:

“Apparently all of the new registrants are processed as a batch on Thursday afternoons, so if it hasn’t been at least a week, I’d have them wait until Friday morning and see if it’s still a problem.”

So let me know on Friday if you got anything. Thanks!

By: Kate Elliott

Kate Elliott — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:54:43 +0000

I have an email in to my publisher to see if they can give me an email address for who you should contact with your question. I will post that here as soon as I hear back from them.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:25:24 +0000

I have the same problem… I have her first book… but I was interested in the backgrounds for my computer… so far its been nearly a week and I have nothing from them.

By: Hugh Agnew

Hugh Agnew — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:46:12 +0000

I’ve signed up three times from 2 email addresses and after being told that I was now registered have received nothing, zilch, nada about any links or any downloadable copies of anything…

Ideas?

Hugh