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Originally Posted by Xenophon
Surely you know about Baen, the Baen Free Library
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Yes, you're right on about them. Baen is great. Sadly, I'm not a huge sci fi reader anymore. Used to be in high school, but somehow never really went back to it. On the other hand, I'm loving the public domain stuff like PG & Portable Harvard Classics. Plus a few ereader.com books in the mix also. Their free giveaways encouraged me to start buying some.
Like so many of us, I'd love to see more Baen-like sellers appear outside the sci-fi subjects.
DRM doesn't stop me from buying ebooks, but it limits my purchases to ones that I plan to read right away, and would have thrown away after reading if it was a paper book. If it's a book I want to keep, DRM ebooks just aren't a very good option.
Having said that, it's still great to have sellers like Fictionwise, the upcoming Sony store, eReader, MobiPocket/Amazon, MSLit sellers, etc. It's not perfect, but it's still better than being limited to public domain, paper, and/or pirated versions.