I'm not disagreeing with you Jeffery I just think that Baen will have to raise priceses to maintain there profit margen when they do start selling in other books stores. One thing they could do though is give a member discount if you purchase the book on Baen's own web site. In this way they would avoid the price matching issue of the other store fronts. I'm not against Baen raising priceses and I think they could get away with a small increase (raise base price to say $7 ) for onsite sales but they would have to increase the price to around $8 to maintian there current profit margin on the books at other sellers. But then again we don't know what they will do. For all we know they will keep the current pricing model and hope to make it up in volume.
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