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Originally Posted by gweminence
Um, only SOME of their books are free, and none of them, I believe, are outside the public domain. Baen is a fantastic publisher, precisely because of the way they handle their books.
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Very true. The books included in the Open Books site are also all outside the public domain.
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Originally Posted by gweminence
Let's not repay their sanity by mass-distributing works that either 1. they fully -- and rightly -- expect payment for, or 2. -- are free, but NOT public domain.
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Your points are valid but are so far out of context. How do your points have anything at all to do with this thread or topic? Have you even reviewed the
Open Books site?
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Originally Posted by gweminence
Remember that they're giving the books free of charge (those that they DO give away free,) in order to either drive traffic to their site, so that curious reads will buy other works, or else to get them interested in some of their writers, with the hopes that they'll buy some of the paid books.
Keep in mind that DRM free does NOT mean 'free of financial obligation'.
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I agree with everything you said but it has no place in this thread. Please check out the site before you jump to conclusions about its layout or goals.