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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Disintermediation and competition from Indies doesn't impact just the bad guys.
I worry about BAEN. Hopefully they can endure.
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Not really the same kind of publisher. Samhain is a digital first publisher (one of the more successful) while Baen is a traditional publisher with ties to the Big 5 for distribution. Samhain lost a fair chunk of their bigger authors to both self publishing (Self-pubbed Romance is probably the most successful self-pub genre) and "moving up" to big NY publishers and while some of those authors still work with Samhain on a lower volume basis just as many took the series they had established with Samhain and moved later books to self-pubbed or are exclusively Big 5 except for their backlists.
They also run a pretty crazy publication schedule with dozens of titles a month. This was fine during the "boom" of eBooks and readers, but was way too many titles per month as the market changed.