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Originally Posted by wgrimm
I agree, and still believe that some adventurous publishers should start marketing their backlists in non-DRM'd format, with buyers given online space for their libraries in case they need to re-download. And price the ebooks at 5 bucks or so. DRM sucks, but readers might even accept DRM of the sort that ereader.com has, as long as switching from device to different device is supported.
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Producing backlist books may be harder than it sounds. At Baen, there are lots of books for which it's easy to
reprint, but much harder to release electronically. They exist as film, which can be sent to the printers, but must be scanned and OCR'd before electronic copies are available. Baen uses them for filling months with duplicate books, but they have to pay someone to do the scanning.
You're much more likely to see a back-list electronic release if there is a new edition, not just a reprint. For ex, Baen has been releasing compilations of 2 or 3 older books under one cover, with new art.
But even with this added cost, it still should be cheaper than most
Roger