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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Well, a lot of it is. Some companies have allready made up their minds, and I don't think Baen and O'Rilley are precisely doing badly. Sure, it's still a relatively small market, but it's growing - and the small publishers are getting into the act as well, E-Reads and Nightshade Books in particular are taking Webscriptions into areas of scifi and fantasy Baen themselves don't really do.
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I'm quite fond of Nightshade Books, and was able to thank them personally at Worldcon a few years ago for publishing Liz Williams' "Inspector Chen" fantasies. (Liz is a friend, and the books are just wonderful.)
Baen is a mid-level action/adventure house, so there will be things they won't do, but they will offer other stuff through Webscriptions.
My understanding is that Webscriptions makes Baen more money than all foreign sales combined.
O'Reilly has been battered by the publishing downturn, but not as badly as a lot of others. They have an active ebook program, and are well regarded in the market place. I'm hardly the only techie who looks for an O'Reilly title first when looking for a book on a computer topic.
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As a note, I also don't currently buy any new Holtzbrinck-label books after their panic reaction to Tor's Webscription experiment.
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Tor is setting up to do ebooks again, and the last I knew, Holtzbrinck had reversed their objection to no DRM, and Tor content through Webscriptions was on the table again, with making it's way through various legal signoffs the main hurdle.
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DMcCunney - QuarkXpress? Pfft. From working on one particular project, I had to aquire proficiency in Adobe Framemaker. (Yea, erk!)
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I used Framemaker a bit back when, as it was what there was if you ran Unix...
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Dennis