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Originally Posted by Xenophon
Um... 'cause they specialize in SF and Fantasy, and those Oprah Book Club types don't generally write in that mode.
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I mean why not have a BigBaen or BaenGenPub or whatever...
There has to be some catch. Ok, there doesn't *have* to be...but I mean is Baen able to print 200K books or whatever?
And *bump* the other publishers! What *author* wouldn't want "somewhere between 10% and 25%" more money?!?!
If I was shopping a book around and some publisher was telling ME "go with us..we've got the eBook thingee and we're showing an additional X% in sales above (say) HarperCollins"...
I'd think some folks would be tappin' on Baen's door when the contracts were up elsewhere.
This really, really makes no sense
OK that's not true. If you are a writer or publisher still looking at this "uʍop ǝpısdn" ("people have it and didn't pay for it") instead of rightside up (Mo' money...gittin' PAYYYYYED, BOYEEEEEE!) then yeah, the "morality obscession" I think is a forest/trees issue.
To my eyes, from what I'm learning here, Baen is practically "printing money".
I guess money
isn't everything.
Suckers