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Old 12-07-2008, 08:39 PM   #42
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Originally Posted by Kris777 View Post
It is not bullshit for publishers who trying to have the same profit from eBooks that they have from paper books.
Users can't buy new bestsellers on http://www.baen.com/ unfortunately
but these DRMed ebooks available on http://www.mobipocket.com or http://www.fictionwise.com/ websites...
Except, of course, when one of that month's books from Baen happens to be a bestseller. Which happens several times a year. New books from Weber, Flint, Bujold, and sometimes Ringo routinely make the bestseller lists. So, actually, readers can buy new best sellers from Baen.

It's just that Baen and WebScriptions aren't a general bookstore. They're a publisher and it's main web outlet. With deals with a number of other small publishers (like Subterranean and Night Shade Books). And a deal with Tor coming Real Soon Now (or so rumor has it). You're right, however, that they don't carry the entire NYT bestseller list (as B&N and Amazon do in paper and Amazon and Sony attempt to do in bits).

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