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I recently purchased the latest Travis S Taylor SF book from Baen. I could have purchased an ARC copy but as the release date was only a few days off I waited until recently to buy. Total cost US$6. Choice of any format or all and NO geographic restrictions.

My last purchase was the third book in the Helfort's War series, a non Baen published book (Random House), written by an Australian Author. Nope, without some IP masking trickery, I could not purchase this book as an ebook anywhere. Eventually I paid my US$7.50 and got the ebook. I could have waited and got it DRM free via a sharing site though, eventually.

It is truly astounding that the publishing giants have not learned something from the frenetic flailings of the music/movie industry. Surely that example of an antiquated failing marketing/sales strategy as something to avoid would have been obvious