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As people have been discovering for the last few days, the contents of this archive site has recently changed.
For ten years now, Baen has seen fit to provide free teaser/sampler CDs with many of its first edition hardbacks. They have been - and still should be - applauded for making much of their material available as no-cost samplers. Anecdotal evidence suggests that many, many first-time readers have been swayed into buying Baen books due to having read something from one of the free CDs.
Baen is now on the verge of launching a new ebook distribution deal with an 'unnamed third-party'.
This third-party regularly crawls the web looking for ebooks it markets and, if found, matches their price to the new-found lower price.
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You can see where this is going...
IMO it's hopeful news that the third party deal has been making progress. Baen have been trying to negotiate it for a long time now. Without naming names, there's a small number of big combined e-reader/e-book sellers. Buyers assume books "should" be on the big sites... and in the store that shows up in their e-reader. Baen surely can't afford to ignore the biggest of them.
So long, and thanks for all the books.