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Old 05-19-2011, 09:39 AM   #39
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward View Post
We know they have been selling e-books for 10+ years (along with P-books) and are currently still in business. Yes, they are a private company, not required to show their books to anybody but their bankers (if they have any debt), but that is no cause for implying that they aren't successful.
I implied no such thing. I just point out that though many of us like the way Baen does business, we don't have the information required to state how good a business they have going.

They also target a fairly small nice. Happens to be MY niche, so I'm quite pleased. But I can't say their tactics would work for a broader audience. Not saying they wouldn't, just saying we don't have the information at hand to make such judgments.

We don't know, for example, how well the authors that write for them are doing as opposed to other publishers. From an author's perspective -- what are the advantages of writing for Baen as opposed to Tor or Ace?

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