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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I don't think they all work in the industry, although I believe several of them have done so at some point. Watching them dodge around Baen's success is always fascinating.
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No dodging is necessary. Baen's model works for
Baen. It will
not work for most other publishers,
especially the big ones.
For reasons why, see Kris Rusch's blog posts on the topic. Kris knows whereof she speaks: she has been a publisher (she and her husband Dean Wesley Smith published an innovative
hardcover fiction magazine called
Pulphouse back in the late 80's/early 90's), and editor (she was editor of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for a few years, before Mercury Press sold it to Gordon Van Gelder), and is a current full time freelance writer.
See
http://kriswrites.com/2010/10/28/the...-times-part-2/ and following columns.
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Dennis