Thread: Amazon’s Book Monopoly : A Threat to Freedom of Expression?
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Old 01-24-2016, 05:59 PM   #83
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Originally Posted by Apache View Post
I have been buying books published by Baen since they started publishing books. I used to buy them, in hard copy, from book stores. Then I started buying hard cover books online because of the discounts available compared to buying them from a retail outlet. When Baen started publishing eBooks, I started buying them directly from Baen. I still prefer to buy them directly from Baen, even when they are the same price as other online stores such as Amazon. I bought Retief from Baen just the other day. I prefer to support Baen directly as much as I can. But, most people only buy eBooks from the online store of the company that sold them their eReader. Most people find it easier to do so rather than find it in another store and have to download the file, go to the trouble of figuring out how to remove DRM, download Calibre, format shift the books and upload them to their eReader from a computer.
Apache
yep. Since Baen ebooks predated the Kindle by around 8 years, most of the Baen readers are use to buying and downloading from Baen, plus the SF&F crowd tends to be a bit more tech savy than the norm.
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