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Originally Posted by NatCh
Actually, I think the original point was that Baen's model might be a better choice of example of what works than the example of Apple's model, because Baen deals, successfully, with e-books rather than music -- the gist being, why compare oranges to apples when you have a perfectly good orange to compare them to? 
That being said, the facts that Baen does have an actual e-book store, from which they show a profit, and have a number of bestseller list titles available from, which seem mysteriously resistant to piracy despite their glaring lack of any DRM would seem to be extraordinarily relevant to the current topic of discussion. 
I understood that you wished to discuss how e-books might be successfully and profitably marketed in the mainstream, but perhaps I misunderstood your intent? |
I'd agree: Baen is a good example of a company, already selling e-books successfully, to examine.
Another is Harlequin, who is doing a good business with e-books too... romance is considered the best-selling of e-book genres in most markets.
So, if these two work as well as they do, the questions are, what parts of their methods work, and how do we get the other publishers to emulate their methods (or is there some reason why they might need to alter them for their own needs)?