If you're planning to buy from Baen, you might want to see if you can get a gift Webscription first.
One of the nice things about them is that when you buy yourself one of their monthly new release discount bundles, they allow you to gift a free copy to someone who hasn't yet signed up at their site, and then that person can then gift another free copy when they claim their own, and so forth down the line. It's a great way for them to spread their works to potential new customers.
Every so often, someone buying a new Webscription month will post in the Deals forum to see if they can create one of these gift-publicity new customer chains, and the current one is
in this thread, if you'd like to give it a try.