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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
What do you define as "of any significance?"
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A significant publisher would be one that carries books that I've heard of by authors that I'm familiar with. I haven't looked at all the publishers that you linked to, but after looking at half a dozen I've yet to find an author that I know. They may be fine publishers of great books, but they're not even of Baen's minor significance in the larger scheme of publishing. And that isn't intended as a knock against them either, they're just small, and as far as I can tell, they don't carry any mainstream sci-fi or fantasy authors in non-drm formats.
As far as I know, Baen remains the only significant publisher of non-drm science-fiction and fantasy. I have to conclude that while I approve of their business model heartily, if it were really as successful as many claim then other larger companies would be doing it too, and they aren't.
I'd be more than happy to see evidence to the contrary.