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Originally Posted by starrigger
I haven't actually talked to the folks at Baen yet, but I seriously doubt that they contract with individual authors for ebook versions of titles published elsewhere. (Other than public domain books, I mean.) I can think of a dozen reasons why that would be more trouble to them than it's worth. Still, I should ask.
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Well, they have done so in the past:
- David Drake's Isles series is published elsewhere in paper, but sold via WebScriptions.
- They carry eBooks from a bunch of authors who had originally sold them via Meisha Merlin. This includes all of P. C. Hodgell, the Lee&Miller Liaden series (plus the chap-books, which were previously available only from the authors), and a bunch-a-ton of others.
- David Weber's Off Armageddon Reef was published by Tor, but sold in bits via Baen.
- They brought back the entire Pournelle/Niven CoDominium series, right up through The Gripping Hand -- most originally published elsewhere.
- Leigh Brackett bundles...
- Edmond Hamilton bundles...
- Much of Mike Resnick's back-list...
- ...and more showing up regularly.
Past history suggests that if your books have a decent history of sales, Baen is likely to be interested in selling them in bits. And their standard policy is to take
non-exclusive e-rights, so it wouldn't even prevent you from also selling through e-reads or fictionwise or whomever. So please check it out! Baen really does have the most reader-friendly scheme for selling ebooks that I've found so far.
Xenophon
P.S. And a very happy birthday, too!
