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Originally Posted by JeremyR
The trouble with Baen is if you don't like military SF, they don't have much to offer. They do have some classics, but the e-book version of those can be spotty (at least the ones I bought were).
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Esther Friesner writes military SF? (I just bought her new collection from Baen) Sharon Lee and Steve Miller? Lois Bujold? Mercedes Lackey? P.C. Hodgell?
Yes, Baen sells a lot of military SF. As I happen to like military SF, this is a good thing. But they also sell a lot which is
not military SF, and as I also like that, this is also a good thing. Plus they're bringing out-of-print books back into print as ebooks, and often pbooks, such as Norton, Leinster, Heinlein, Leiber, and many other authors. For those people who have to search out ratty old copies in used bookstores or go without, they're yet another good thing, and if they have formatting issues (though I haven't seen any notable ones personally) let Baen know and they'll be fixed. Personally, given the state of some of my old paperbacks, I'd trade a few formatting problems for having the covers not fall off.
I don't like their politics, but I like their prices, I like their DRM (none), and I like their books; they, in turn, seem to quite like my money, since they accept large quantities of it. It works out for both of us.
I buy fiction books from Baen, Smashwords, BeWrite, BookView Cafe, the occasional stray indie, and authors' websites. For non-fiction, where I mostly buy computer books, I'm very fond of O'Reilly, especially when they have sales.