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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I can only guess that Big Pub sees Baen as a niche publisher, and is not convinced their success will be paralleled by mainstream book sales (the meat of their market). They'll want a direct comparison model, one they can license lock, stock and barrel, and use as-is without having to futz with it (because that would still be R&D for them).
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I s'pose that Baen is a niche publisher. Pretty big as niches go, with multiple books hitting the best-seller lists each year... but they only publish SF & Fantasy, and only 4-8 new books per month.
On the other hand, negotiations for e-Publishing rights with Tor (and their parent company) have been back on for a while, so we may yet see motion from one of the larger publishers.