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Originally Posted by crossi
I love Baen. They have some of my favorite authors and I've bought a lot of books from them. But while I check Amazon's new books every day I might go to Baen's site once a month.
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Well, that works with Baen's schedule of updating their new books roughly once a month anyway.
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Originally Posted by crossi
Do you think they will offer their books on Amazon and at a discount on their site since they don't need to give Amazon a 30% cut? For 30% off I might search on Amazon but buy at Tor.
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Technically, Baen kind of offer a discount, not on their own books, but on Night Shade's, which are just $6 DRM-free MultiFormat in the Baen webstore, but $7.99 DRMed elsewhere (but coupons applicable).
One of the ways that publishers could get people into their own stores is to offer significant direct-buy discounts.
Sourcebooks'
Discover A New Love bookclub for romance novels offers 40% off the regular list price of their books for members (and a $9.99 membership gets you 6 free books in an Audible-style 1 credit per month program), with additional sale deals and bonus coupon offers, all DRM-free in ePub/Mobi/PDF bundle with a single purchase. This puts most of their eligible titles below the discount price offered at most stores.
Even though I'm not interested in dedicated romance novels, I did join to encourage the entire DRM-free discounted direct-buy thing, and hopefully they add some more historical fiction selections I'd actually get around to reading.