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Originally Posted by gweeks
From information Baen and Baen authors have shared, both make more money from a single ebook purchase than from a mm paperback sale, but less than for a hardcover sale. The bundled purchases are about the same as a paperback sale.
You would have to go dig through the Baen bar for the posts to see the detailed information. Oh, the bundles went up $3 so the ratios might have changed too. I don't remember seeing anything on trade paperback either and I do notice Baen is doing more of them.
Baen is a smallish publisher, distributed by S&S, but not owned by them.
Greg
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My fears about BAEN aren't about pricing or margins.
They seem to have those under control.
One of the reasons they have done well with their liberal ebook policies is that ebook releases have helped promote and increase their pbook sales.
My concern is that at some point the ratio of ebook to pbook might get high enough that the percent ebook losses they currently "deprecate" as "shoplifting" stops being trivial and at least some of the authors start asking for/implementing DRM.
Some of their authors do have books moving through more traditional publishers so if Weber, for one, starts seeing more per-unit revenue coming in from the Price-fixed DRM'ed releases at Tor he may look as fondly on their policies...
Hopefully they can keep their liberal policies as ebooks become their primary revenue source (and they have always been more of a paperback house to start with) but there's no telling how the spreadsheets will tally up for the authors.