As a buyer, I can certainly appreciate buying direct from Baen, and have done so myself. But if I were a Baen author, I'd want them to get all the books into the Kindle and other stores, because that's where most of the sales go down. (I'm not a Baen author in the usual sense, though my E-reads titles are in the Baen store, and one self-repubbed is in the free library.) They do have a really customer-friendly store, which is to their credit, but there's no way it can compete numerically with the exposure of all the other stores. So for the sake of all the Baen authors, I hope they do expand into all of the other venues.
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