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Originally Posted by dsvick
I haven't compared the regular Baen prices to the same books anywhere else yet.
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I don't think the Baen books are available anywhere else. (If they are, they cost more.) Baen's prices for ebooks are absolutely the best--about $5 for a single new, in-print book, or $15 for a set of 3-5 books. (You don't get to pick the set.) Older books are sometimes $5-6 for a set of two or three combined. And an incredible selection of their ebooks are available for free. Some are in the library, and some are released on CDs with the hardcovers, and the CD contents are freely reproduced on the web. (With Baen's blessings. They like new readers.)
Baen is the model we wish all ebook sellers would use. Multiple filetypes, no DRM, prices low enough to encourage impulse buys, free samples of everything, and absolutely no fuss about file sharing. (They seem to know that many of their books that aren't in the free library or on the CDs, are available through the darknet. They don't seem consider those "lost sales" any more than they consider yard sales full of books "lost sales.")
So far, their method is working.