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Old 04-18-2008, 07:05 PM   #20
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I think the difference is that Baen is run by someone who wants ebooks to succeed, where the traditional publishers have a working business model and (as we all know) change is bad.

edit: don't forget that all those extra "costs" are internal to the publisher. Every single one is done internally by the publisher and billed to the author, not billed by someone external to the publisher and borne by them. So when they say "digital warehousing" we're not talking $200/TB for disk space and "ls -lR *.lrf", we're talking a full retail service provided by the publisher to their authors with huge markups at every step.
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