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Originally Posted by AgentOrange
I think more publishers should go the route of Baen books and partner with their authors to offer free ebooks as encouragement for people to say, buy the rest of the series that the author offered the first few books of for free. Introducing the Baen free library
Baen knows cracking down on piracy or increasing prices only encourages piracy to continue, so if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. |
as a result, i really don't see too many baen books on pirate sites. why bother pirating it when they're giving it to you for free already (unless for some reason you can't get the books in your country).
landing the whole honor harrington series on a pirate site really isn't a coup when they pretty much give you the entire series with every new release
with their lack of drm, reasonably priced ebooks, free library, relatively inexpensive print omnibuses, etc, baen bends over backwards to satisfy their customer base and as a result i've been checking out more of their titles.
angry robot is another good publisher. they don't hand out freebies but their books are drm free, no territory restrictions and priced from $3-$4.75. they must be doing ok with the business model, their 2012 release list is almost triple the size of last years.
its just little things other pubs could be doing but they're not. got a new installment of a series coming out? what would be the harm in giving the previous books a deep discount for a few weeks?
unfortunately it seems like publishers believe capitulating even an inch on drm or prices is tantamount to negotiating with terrorists.