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Originally Posted by leebase
Who's attempting to shut down conversation? I love Baen. I'd love for more companies to do the things I like about Baen. But I can't say "Baen does it, so therefore it must be a financially successful model that other companies should emulate.
That's PARTICIPATING in a conversation, not shutting it down.
Lee
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In fact, I wish that there were a moratorium on using Baen...or J.A. Konrath, for that matter...as an example of how things could be done in the e-publishing world. Baen seems to be good at what they do but: (1) it seems pretty clear to me that what a niche publisher putting out 70-80 titles per year does may not be expandable to a publisher putting out 80,000 titles per year; and (2) if what Baen did were so easy that everyone should just imitate them, there would be *some* imitators.
So maybe Baen is unique and their business model isn't easily replicated. Or maybe it's not that successful - David Weber did publish his newest book with Macmillan/Tor. (Although, based on the reviews, maybe this was Baen's idea.)