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Baen Books is the reason I bought an e-reader, the reason I found MobileRead, and the reason I have a library of in excess of 3000 books here in my home. I started buying dead tree Baen books years ago and I soon began to look for the Baen logo in the bookstores with all the passion and excitement that I used to devote to searching for the Rocketship logo to the left almost a half-century ago. Baen Books has resurrected so many out of publication books that I can't even begin to enumerate them and has introduced me to so many new authors that I would not have read if I had been constrained to dead tree.
And the cost... the price of their “Monthly Bundle” is a deal that is unbeatable.
All that said there are Baen authors I do not read. Some of their works make me physically ill, mindless slaughter, maiming, and mutilation. It is quite disgusting. However, I will still buy a bundle that contains those author's work to get the other books at a reasonable price and I certainly don't support boycotting Baen Books (or any publisher) for some of their author's creations. That smacks of abridging the freedom of speech.
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