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Originally Posted by pdurrant
How interesting. Baen also has an advance ebook system - eARCs. But they charge more for the early access ($15 vs $9.99), even though the text isn't the final, copy-edited, text.
I do hope Amazon roll this out in the UK as well as in the US.
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The objectives are different: BAEN eARCs are fan service, giving early access to the "thousand true fans" that would be buying (and reading) the book anyway, whereas Amazon is using the free/cheap ebooks as a sweetener for their Prime subscriptions and to promote the ebook to customers who otherwise might not even know of the book, much less buy it. (You have to subscribe to the newsletter to get the books, so it's closer to a book club.) There is no guarantee of when, or if, the Amazon First freebies will get read, whereas eARCs are a lock to be read ASAP.
