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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Third, they are a specialty publisher, catering to a defined niche market, and they understand who the market is and what it likes. They aren't likely to have best sellers (save David Weber's Honor Harrington series), but they also won't suffer the sort of losses a full line publisher suffers on a book it hoped would be a best seller and paid a huge advance and promotional costs for, but which tanked. Baen doesn't place that sort of bet, and while some of their titles will do better than others, I doubt any of them tank.
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This seems to me to be an important point that people forget when comparing to Baen. I want publishers to place risky bets so they can find new briliant authors or books. So if everybody would do as Baen there would be less briliant books easily findable or available,