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Originally Posted by amjbrown
I've never heard of any of the authors on Baen though. They are not exactly Martin Amis or Dan Brown (depending upon your taste!).
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No problem about never having heard of them, especially if you're not widely read in SF and/or Fantasy. But quite a few of them routinely hit the NYT hardcover fiction bestsellers list.
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I doubt they see the earnings of the type of writers that the publishers are so keen to hang onto.
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amjb
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They certainly don't hit Dan Brown or Stephen King sized earnings. But it's not unusual to see, for example, a Baen hardcover with a bound-in CD of eBooks where the CD is included "in the first 100,000 copies only." And when that first printing of 100K copies sells out in the first couple of weeks, later printings (often multiple such) indeed come w/o the CD.
Most publishers would be eager to hang on to
any author who hits the NYT bestsellers list, even the extended list that's not printed in the paper -- it holds numbers 16-30 IIRC and is reported to the bookselling trade, but not to the general public.
Xenophon