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[Egomane]

Some were released in ePub format but certainly not for free. You can try to buy them at Amazon.

More information at Battletech.com.

I couldn't find a single news from a publisher that they were now free for all. If you can provide information like that please do.

Edited by Egomane, 16 June 2013 - 03:59 AM.

[zudukai]

Egomane, on 16 June 2013 - 03:45 AM, said:

Some were released in ePub format but certainly not for free. You can try to buy them at Amazon.

More information at Battletech.com.

I couldn't find a single news from a publisher that they were now free for all. If you can provide information like that please do.

you know what would be awesome? someone clearing up all the bull**** surrounding MW, and BT; books are nearly impossible to track down, information is always sketchy, straight forward answers are deflected like the plague, and everyone seems to be more or less fine with it, i know microsoft holds most of the rights, but even they don't say anything ever to anyone about any of it.

[Stormwolf]

Egomane, on 16 June 2013 - 03:45 AM, said:

Some were released in ePub format but certainly not for free. You can try to buy them at Amazon.

More information at Battletech.com.

I couldn't find a single news from a publisher that they were now free for all. If you can provide information like that please do.

They are not for free, they are however prevented from selling those books due to certain issues:

http://bg.battletech...2.html#msg18342

[Steven Dixon]

As a general rule in fictional multimedia universes there is a hierarchy of 'canon'. The original media always takes primacy (so in BT the sourcebooks take precedence, in Star Wars its the films, Star Trek its the TV show, in Mass Effect its the games, ect). More recent canon also overrides older canon. Then they have a secondary source of canon, which is automatically considered canon unless the primary media overrides it (in BT its the novels, so unless a sourcebook conflicts with the information in a novel it's considered canon).

Then there other media which get less and less canon (tv shows, comics, video games, ect). Again the masters of the original media decide the order of precedence. Generally speaking everything that is part of the Battletech license should be considered canon (although perhaps not exactly) unless contradicted by higher canon unless the creators specify otherwise (or its obviously non-canon, alternative endings in video games would be a good example). Even the BT cartoon is canon, they just altered it a bit to make it official in the sourcebooks, basically the cartoon was an 'actual' TV show in the BT universe based on real events.

See its that simple

P.S: my understanding is that the epubs are right bellow the novels in the canon hierarchy so they are essentially canon until a novel or sourcebook alters it.

[Nerroth]

From the most recent round of BattleChats:

Quote

MWO IN-VERSE
<AJC>: since the old BT cartoon is an in-verse thing are the mechwarrior games in-verse games?
<Habeas2>: AJC - Yup!

[Zen Idiot]

I feel that anything that wasn't created by FASA isn't cannon. Forget WizKids with their MRM and Heavy lasers...

[Nathan Foxbane]

ZenIdiot, on 18 June 2013 - 12:27 PM, said:

I feel that anything that wasn't created by FASA isn't cannon. Forget WizKids with their MRM and Heavy lasers...

MRMs and Heavy Lasers are FASA developed. They came out in Maximum Tech along with a slew of other weapons and equipment including Advanced Tactical Missiles, Light and Heavy Machine Guns, Rotary and Light Autocannons, Angel ECM, Bloodhound Active probe, Compact Engines, Laser Heat Sinks, and Composite Internal Structure to name a few. Tight Stream EMP is all WizKids though.