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My favorite response to big-publishing folks who start to tell me that "Baen is different, because..." is to ask them "So what does that tell you about what YOU are doing wrong? Baen has been succeeding in eBooks for a decade; you haven't. So if 'Baen is different...', hadn't you better consider that the difference relates to something they've been doing that you need to learn about?"
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Look , the success of Baen is a wonderful thing, but so long as its the ONLY significant success, well, its a hard thing to bet a whole industry, that supports millions of authors and related personnel , on a model that hasn't enjoyed widespread success. Mobileread forum supporters don't have that responsibility, so its easy for them to blithely say, "Leap by faith into the dark. The landing won't be so bad!".
And this over something-DRM- that is more of an annoyance than anything else and can changed to allay the most serious concerns of the digerati.