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Originally Posted by sirbruce
Let me also point out that Baen still rejects lots of good books from new authors every year. They could "easily" publish all of those in ebook form and see what sells and what doesn't, yet they still rely on physical sales for their authors. It's not just a quality issue.
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No, they couldn't "easily" publish much more books without dropping the quality significantly. They have a pretty small editing staff and they have their hands full as is. What they can do, however, is put on Webscriptions books from other smaller publishers (E-Reads, Night Shade, Subterranean) and "reprints" of older SF, such as Leigh Brackett/Edmond Hamilton bundles, CoDominium/Pournelle Continuum, Jupiter Collection, John Grimes bundles, Liaden Universe and so on. Also, I know of at least one originally Baen book which was published E only (The Guns of Two-Space), apparently due to disappointing paper sales of the first book in series. It's possible there are others.