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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Look at Baen: If you want an unproofed galley so you can read a book months before anyone else does, you buy the advance reader copy. If you want an ebook the day the hardcover comes out, you buy the regular ebook. If you want to read the backlist, there's the Baen Free Library. Interestingly enough, Baen has gone from an also-ran to, among other things, the leading publisher of hardcover SF. Despite, I might note, selling cheap, DRM-free, multi-format ebooks. There just might be something to this whole "sell what the market wants to buy" thing, instead of "make the market buy what you want to sell."
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They are a-typical as has been explained in other threads. What works for them will not automatically work for other kind of entities.