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mrkai · 12-17-2007, 11:44 AM

Ok...I'll rephrase that since the "no offense" part seems to CLEARLY have been ignored.

I go to amazon's top sellers and the NYT fiction list I see several authors I recognize.

As I don't read sci-fi I guess you know this could have been a limiting factor there at Baen.

The other point, and again, getting twisted up on who or who is not a Baen fan may be getting tangental here, but are any of these Baen NYT Bestsellers themselves available from Baen?

Like the Grammys (for example) there is a grammy for Best Audio Engineering on a Latin Fusion Recording-type Grammy...but not many people can tell you who won it.

I go to Mobipocket, I see stuff I know or people I've heard of...and I mean heard of *casually*..not as a fan of a particular genre.

How anyone could have not picked this up...I dunno. Seems like fanboys looking for a fight.

Wrong thread...unless you serious think that

1. Big Publishers would go for the Baen model and
2. Big Publisher's product (with in the above stated "I go to Mobileread, I see stuff I know or people I've heard of...and I mean heard of *casually*...") have the same market weight/value

If so...rock on

12-17-2007, 11:44 AM	#14
mrkai Bit Wrangler Posts: 181 Karma: 415 Join Date: Oct 2007 Device: Sony PRS-505	Ok...I'll rephrase that since the "no offense" part seems to CLEARLY have been ignored. I go to amazon's top sellers and the NYT fiction list I see several authors I recognize. As I don't read sci-fi I guess you know this could have been a limiting factor there at Baen. The other point, and again, getting twisted up on who or who is not a Baen fan may be getting tangental here, but are any of these Baen NYT Bestsellers themselves available from Baen? Like the Grammys (for example) there is a grammy for Best Audio Engineering on a Latin Fusion Recording-type Grammy...but not many people can tell you who won it. I go to Mobipocket, I see stuff I know or people I've heard of...and I mean heard of casually..not as a fan of a particular genre. How anyone could have not picked this up...I dunno. Seems like fanboys looking for a fight. Wrong thread...unless you serious think that 1. Big Publishers would go for the Baen model and 2. Big Publisher's product (with in the above stated "I go to Mobileread, I see stuff I know or people I've heard of...and I mean heard of casually...") have the same market weight/value If so...rock on Last edited by mrkai; 12-17-2007 at 11:56 AM.