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The new site is pretty. Unfortunately, "pretty" and "functional" are not always the same thing.
Depending heavily on Flash cuts out people with Apple products, people whose browsers don't support Flash, people who have turned Flash off for security reasons, and people who use Flash-blockers because they're annoyed with those flying, screaming Flash ads that appear on various websites.
The page is too long. A home page should be a dispatch page to the sections a user wants, not something to be deeply read.
Speaking of the sections a user wants, the valuable space above the fold is being used to promote three books. THREE BOOKS? That makes Baen look like a small press. Maybe a microscopic press.
On the menu bar, we have "Read Baen", "Baen Authors", "Baen Community", and "About Baen". What's missing there? A big, obvious link for "Buy Baen Books". The purpose of a website is not to tell people what you want them to know about their company; it's to give them an opportunity for them to give you money for what they want, which in this case is books. The site should make it obvious and easy, and it doesn't.
All in all, it's not bad, but they should have had a professional do it -- a professional in the sense of someone who knows how to use the Web to sell products, not just to make pretty pictures.
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