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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Equally, I'd point out that David's Safehold series is, well, not-Baen. I'm sure there's a story there.
*shrugs*
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My guess is, David can turn it out faster than Baen can publish it. He's not the only author who has had more than one publisher for reasons like that. Baen will publish a set number of titles per month, and as much as they appreciate Weber, they
do want to publish other authors...
Tor CEO Tom Doherty, incidentally, used to be Jim Baen's boss whan Tom was publisher and Jim was Editor at Ace Books, and they remained friends and Tom was an investor in Baen Books when Jim set up his own shop.
So I suspect Weber having a series published by Tor was seen somewhat as "keeping it in the family".
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Of course, very few other companies are willing to accept non-exclusive electronic rights, limiting the value of Baen's move. But it's still an extremely good one...
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It's a good one from Baen's perspective, because it's something I think authors will be more likely to go for.
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Dennis