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Originally Posted by sirbruce
That's why I put "easily" in quotes. Bottom line: Baen's approach to ebooks may be great, but it doesn't solve most authors' primary problem.
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I think I see what you were trying to get at. So: No! I don't think we can fix most authors' primary problem by telling them to publish with Baen. That obviously wouldn't work.
Baen itself -- by itself -- is not going to fix industry-wide sales problems, nor will it pump sales up industry-wide.
I was attempting to suggest something else -- Baen has demonstrated that their business model works well in the current environment. I was intending to suggest that said business model might well put a real dent in eBook piracy, if it were adopted by many more (or even most) publishers. It would do that by pricing eBooks at a level that seems fair to many purchasers, by treating the end users (that's us readers!) with respect, and also by increasing the percentage of the sales dollar that makes it back to the authors who are the primary producers of value. Most of the "better royalties for the authors" part comes from cutting an entire layer out of the sales channel.
Xenophon