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Originally Posted by theducks
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I still have a Baen Account. Don't use it much any more, but loved it and spet a lot of money there in the past. The deals for the packages of books got worse both price and selection (mostly selection) and the free library kinda got abandoned from upkeep, or at least it felt that way. Also though Baen used to be my go to for genre's I like compared to other publishers, the quality sorta slacked a bit and then indie publishing took off and all of a sudden thousands of books more solidly in my favorite genre's or mini genre's were available on amazon. To be honest I haven't read more than 40 or 50 books from any of the old traditional publishers in the last 15 years. The really good dynamic new authors are almost all indie now, as well as the ones diving into making new genre's and writing old school stuff like I started with as a child in the 70's, or the older stuff I love as a child written in the late 1800-1960's before i was around. So much goodness!!!!!
I actually have noticed a good handful of my old favorite authors seem to be going indie now and moving some of their old books that seem to no longer be under the old publishers to their own accounts now on amazon. Every once in a while I will see what seems to be a new book also.. One day I might check them out. it's been so many years since I read much of theirs that I have trouble keeping up with all the new stuff from the newer authors I follow.