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Originally Posted by fjtorres
More or less.
There are two versions; the generic flying car with the enormous letters cover which is harmless and meaningless, and the one a rendition of Ivan-you-idiot in a scene with the two sisters. Some people find the scantily clad beautiful people annoying. Which is a proper response because the characters in their milleau *are* annoying that way. 
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I don't care for that cover (and didn't see it when I looked. I saw the car one.) It appears to be going for that "pulp" fiction look, a retro look that some publishers bring back now and then. I've read enough Lois M. Bujold that it wouldn't put me off.
In truth, ... I don't like most of Baen covers. They often have a retro look that they have never moved away from. If I, as as self-pub'd author put out a cover that looked like the one on Baen's site for "Miles in Love" or "Miles, Mutants, and Microbes" -- just as two examples, I'd be lambasted for not spending money on a cover and the comments would roll in about how indie authors had terrible covers. I'd hear about the fonts looking plastic and cut and pasted on, etc. I don't even want to imagine the emails I'd get (and I have gotten plenty of them about some of my covers in the past.)
Maybe their covers is their way of branding because when I see a cover like that, I suspect it is probably a Baen cover. I've read enough Baen to ignore the cover and read the blurb or check out the author. BUT their covers do not entice me or sell me on the book. Replacing current covers with scantily clad alien/woman/man on the cover doesn't help matters any. I still wince.