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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. |
Penguin Random House currently has 94 imprints (and some of the imprints have imprints) located throughout the US. Many of them are very small and specialized (preschool, literary, non-fiction, travel guides, etc) but I would say they are all considered traditional. Size doesn't seem to matter in that sense.
Baen, AFAIK, do not offer advances and their royalties are not particularly generous. That doesn't sound very attractive to authors either.