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It may work for indie publishers (who are the other publishers besides Baen sold through Webscriptions), but none of the top six publishers will go for it because they are convinced that low cost ebooks will kill their hardcover market. However, when at least 70% of the ebook marketplace seems to be at Amazon, it seems to me that Webscriptions probably doesn't give the indie publisher the exposure they need. Perhaps that is why Subterranean Press sold through Webscriptions for about a year and then stopped. I don't know if Amazon, B&N, et. al., support the bundling that Webscriptions does. I know I've bought stuff at Webscriptions that I might not otherwise because it was in a bundle, so I think it might be a good thing for the publisher and author, even though the price of the book was discounted.
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