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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Baen succeeds, in part, by convincing customers it's worth paying, and by reminding them that if they don't pay, Baen can't keep giving them what they want. In a world where copies are easy--and they're never going to get harder--Authors and publishers will have to use some variant of that method.
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I love Baen, but we don't know what we don't know. We don't know what Baen's financials are. Flint's articles on his sales are 8 years old. We don't know what the results of their practice will be as eReaders become the FAVORITE way to read books.
We don't know what Baen's authors make compared to Tor's. We don't know what Baen makes compared to Tor.
So yes, Baen is definitely worth watching - but until information is actually published about their results, they cannot simply be held up as proof of anything other than "at least one company doesn't use DRM".
Lee