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Which is true, except that Baen are about as far from my personal tastes as you can get. Their ebook model is superb ... but the stuff they publish is frankly not for me. Unfortunately ... they're about it. There are some good books out there by people like Cory Doctorow and Charlie Stross and others freely available as downloads, but - I already have them, in paper format. My complaint is that outside of Baen and these aforementioned formats - that's it. I want good, literate writing by authors who aren't writing bestsellers but who do have long writing careers, many books out and a habit of writing thoughtful fiction. I'll be damned if I can find any of them as ebooks, yet they sit in paperback format a few feet away, and all from major publishers. The ebook market appears to be absolutely tiny, unless you're a midwestern American with a taste for rightwing narratives about alternative Civil Wars, which pretty much sums up a great deal of Baen's appeal.
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