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Originally Posted by fjtorres
I'm not comparing BAEN to Samhain but I do think that most smaller publishers of romance and SF will be at ever increasing risk moving forward because readers in both those genres are heavily into ebooks and Indies are taking an ever-increasing share of the market. BAEN has a strong brand name and lots of customer loyalty but the long term trends in those genres are not tradpub-friendly.
(Did you hear about Larry Coreia's... vent... over his books getting 1-star reviews for their pricing? BAEN's ebook prices are far from obscene but they *are* taking flack in that area. That is new for them.)
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My impression is that with changing algorithms (especially Amazon returning to favoring larger publishers in the last couple of years when they redid contracts and got more money from the publishers for better placement) smaller publishers have had a very hard time with visibility. Samhain was well-known in writer circles and in some reader circles (mostly romance). I knew they were struggling because I've seen a few bits and pieces here and there over the last couple of years. It's sad news. They were consistent when it came to series, books, quality/copy editing/stories.