I've got to say, you've really got a messed up interpretation of events if you think that the Ghost (first book of Paladin of Shadows) was published after Jim Baen's death. Considering that Jim Baen himself (as well as several barflies) encouraged John Ringo to write the first of the Paladin of Shadows book back in 2005. The series was written with a specific audience in mind, mainly one that only differs from those that read romance novels in the specific that it was to be nominally male. In fact the first 3 of the sieres were post editing prior to Jim Baen's death. Most of the releases this year were in to the publisher prior to Jim's death.
Looking at their current scheduled releases for the next six months or so they're hardly the "ultra-right-wing militaristic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, sado-masochistic, pornographic books" you claim them to be. The whole "ultra-right-wing militaristic" part might be true, but Baen began publishing stories that could be claimed to be that way back in the 1980s with David Drake.
If you want to critize them then do so, by saying they publish books you do not like. Don't come down on the current management because truthfully they aren't the ones who signed the contract for the book series you don't like.
Jeb
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Originally Posted by HarryT
... but otherwise, there are many other sources of books apart from the "Connect" store and PG. It is, for example, trivial to convert any "LIT" file for use on the Reader, and there are a number of on-line bookstores which sell books in Microsoft Reader format.
If you're into SF and Fantasy, there's Baen, who publish stuff in open formats. (I'm a big fan of Baen, but since the death of Jim Baen they seem to have descended somewhat into publishing ultra-right-wing militaristic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, sado-masochistic, pornographic books such as "Ghost" which I find very unpleasant, but that's just a personal view).
Then there's the Usenet newsgroups. I'm not condoning piracy, but personally I feel no ethical qualms about reading a scanned version of a book I own as a paper book if it can't be legitimately bought as an e-book.
There are lots of sources of material to read. You just have to look around for it.
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