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I still say the Baen model only works today because e-readers are not widespread. they are in the hands of enthusiasts, like us, who continue to buy paper books and/or support them on principle.
I'm feeling an echo to the concept of public libraries in general. Can you imagine the rights-management outcry we'd have if we didn't have public libraries today but thought about establishing them? Buy a single copy and let anyone with a library card read it? Preposterous! "Writers will never get paid their worth!" Yet we only acknowledge these institutions with reverence today.
Yes the concept of a perfect digital copy, made in an instant, sharpens the argument but the fundamental issue is not that different.
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