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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
O'Reilly might have, but I don't believe other publishers do so.
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I am almost certain that the rest of the publishing industry doesn't do so. The complaints about additional costs, stories that the price to produce ebook is the same if not higher than that for pbook... It is clear that ebook preparation is a separate process, sometimes done by other publishing house, that reuse is minimal at best, nonexistent in big number of cases. I am not surprised by ebook prices, really.
But for ebook publishing and digital distribution, Baen is anything but your typical publishing house. The list of differences is too long, and not needed, I hope. It is reasonable to expect that Baen is not bound by the "best practices" of the industry. When it comes to digital era, "the industry" and its practices sucks. Big time.