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Originally Posted by HarryT
You seriously don't think that there are any traditionally-published authors who are satisfied with their contracts? As I mentioned earlier in the thread, I buy a lot of SF/Fantasy books published by Baen. Most Baen authors seem to have been with them for a very long time and be happy enough with the deal they get. I see no rush of Baen authors into self-publishing, despite the fact that Baen's contracts are non-exclusive, and hence allow such sales.
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Baen is a tiny company, working in a small corner of a small market.
They put out maybe 50-60 new titles a year.
The randy penguin puts out well over 15,000 titles a year.
Baen is the very definition of outlier, both for readers and authors. They don't even operate out of NYC or London.
I would hardly set them up as an example of what tradpub *is* but I would (and do) hold them up as an example of what tradpub *should* be.