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Originally Posted by leebase
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?
Lee
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<shrug> Ask Eric Flint. He's been quite open about his sales and view on Baen and e-books. He was one of the original Baen author guinuea pigs at the beginning of the free e-book Baen Library.
He wrote about it in a series of essays called
Salvos Against Big Brother In Baen's universe. Nor did he have a huge backlist when it started. But he had enough of one to do a comparison.