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Originally Posted by carld
I wonder if what Baen is doing works so well why are they still the only company of any significance doing this? Baen's been selling their books without DRM for years now, and they're still the only one's doing so.
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What do you define as "of any significance?" Do you measure the success of a publishing house by the number of its titles that make the NYT Bestseller lists (which would mean that, until a month ago, ebook- & POD-only publishers couldn't be "successful" at all)?
10 non-DRM ebook stores: AKW books, Apex Book Company, BeWrite books, Book View Café, Closed Circle, Double Dragon Publishing, L-Book, Lulu.com, Smashwords, Take Control Ebooks
Long list of
DRM-Free publishers.
More
DRM-Free publishers, science-fiction/romance focused.
Baen's not alone; they're just the most well-known, outside the romance circles, and the ones being most vocal about how & why they're going without DRM. They're the ones who have public statements saying, "we think we'll make more money without DRM than we would with it... please, share our ebooks with people who might buy them in the future."