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Originally Posted by kacir
They give books away and many, many people here said that they had no idea that there is somebody like Baen, until somebody here mentioned their free library. They then downloades some books, discovered great authors and eventually became customers.
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You misread Andrew's post, kacir. The free library, where you can download a full ebook (or few) from a series still falls into the known marketing strategy, as one can make money by selling the rest of the series.
What Andrew is questioning, and I agree with him, is the content offered on
http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com, where the
complete Honorverse and Vorkosigan Saga series are available for download. Weber and now Bujold are star authors.
Why would anyone pay for the stuff offered for free? And why has David Weber chosen Tor as a publisher for his Safehold series?