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Originally Posted by AlexBell
Thanks for the post. I haven't used Baen for a while; what's an eARC book?
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It's the e-book version of the ARC, the Advance Reader's Copy. This used to be a small batch of pre-prints of a book with the more or less finished text but without an artistic cover sent out to selected folks to gauge (or stoke up) interest. The eARC is essentially a not-quite-done-yet version of the e-book. The text might still contain a few typos that will be caught in the final rounds of editing, there may or may not be the final cover, but other than that the book should be substantially similar to the finished product.