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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Baen, like any other publisher, can be hit or miss. I've read some very good books by them and some quite poor. The same as any other "gatekeeper" out there and also the same as no gatekeeper at all. Some books you like, others not so much. For me, at least, it has always been that way, no matter where I get the books.
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I would imagine personal taste comes into the mix as well. One person's great writer could be another person's snooze inducer.
I mainly mentioned Baen to bring up the point that I thought they were independent. Apparently they're a division of one of the Big Five? (I'll look it up.)