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Originally Posted by fjtorres
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. |
Small or not, they are, by any reasonable definition of the term, a "traditional publisher". I believe they form a clear counter-example to your assertion that no traditional publisher treats their authors well.