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Originally Posted by rcentros
Their prices seem to more closely match independent publisher prices (on average $7, it appears) and many of their book covers seem kind of amateurish. And the one I've tried (it was free) seemed poorly typeset and the author seems too "on the nose" through the first couple chapters I've read. But I may have just gotten a "bad apple." Or maybe if I force myself to keep reading it will get better. I've had the book for a few years now.
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As you may have read when Baen started selling through other etailers, they had to raise their prices and remove quite a few books from their free library until they could come up with "second editions". As part of the price increase, they increased author royalties. Some of the earlier Baen ebooks I own did have some formatting issues but those seem to have improved over the years. The Baen Free Library and the ebooks they distributed on bound-in CDs were most of the basis of my original ebook library. One of my uses for calibre was going back and converting the original RTF of some of those ebooks to correct some of the issues with the older conversions.