Thread: Did anyone actually defect to ebooks from hardcovers?
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Old 12-15-2009, 09:23 AM   #78
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney View Post
I think Baen is smart. One discovery they've made is that more people buy hardcovers. The original intent of the Free Library was to promore the paper books, and they discovered that people would download from the Free Library, decide they liked the author, and buy the author's next in hardcover. I can't be certain, but I suspect that Baen ebook sales may cannibalize MMPB sales, but that Baen will not be unhappy about that.
That's me. As a result of the free library I discovered a couple of Baen authors that I had never read before and now I buy their hardcovers when released.
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