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Originally Posted by rhadin
You are correct. scifi readers tend to be more supportive of authors they like. They often will buy both the e and p versions, as well as the ARC versions of a book. They often will click the donation button. Outside of certain niches, the Baen model will not work.
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I don't know that I totally agree that it won't work outside of 'certain' niches, but I'm not going to say that it will either. First I'd want to know which niches we think it will work in (or, alternatively, which we think it won't work in).
My first thought was that you were saying it wouldn't work outside the sci-fi niche, which I'm pretty certain is wrong. (I think it would work very well in the mystery/detective niche, although I don't know of any publishers using it there.)
Then I re-read what you *did* say, so I'll withhold further comment until we decide where we think it will/won't work. As a starter, I very much doubt it would work well in technical non-fiction. Might work in historical/biographical non-fiction though. Maybe in philosophy?