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Originally Posted by Xenophon
Baen doesn't exactly act as their own retailer, by the way. Webscriptions is a completely separate business run by Arnold Bailey. However, Arnold cooperates very closely with Baen. It looks (from the outside, and via rumor and grapevine) like he performs many of the steps of ebook production and formatting that would normally have to happen directly at the publisher's expense. Also, there's no other distributor intervening between Baen and Webscriptions. IF this picture is correct (note the important caveat!), ebook production has a somewhat lower direct cost for Baen than it does for many other publishers. And the only markup between publisher and reader is Webscriptions -- who are providing quite a few useful services to both publisher and reader.
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Oh for crying out loud!
What, even Baen, the poster company for e-book publishing still needs additional "steps of ebook production and formatting"? It is not integral part of their regular workflow, they don't have a standard electronic version as a byproduct of pbook run, where different formats are generated by a click of a button or execution of a script?
