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Originally Posted by Kolenka
Well, Baen's model is also to get you going in to buy the physical books of authors you discover with the cheap eBooks. They've said as much in Baen's Universe's editorials. The idea is that they see it as a way to improve the overall bottom line by giving you a way to discover new authors with minimal risk to you. By doing so, you are more likely to buy the full price hadcovers/etc from those authors once they've established themselves as worth it in your mind.
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Right, I knew why they were doing it - I was just wondering if it was working out for them
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I'm left with no option but to go into the store and start buying Baen printed books if I want to read more from the author...
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You should be able to get the Ebook of everything as well, in fact through webscriptions you can get the eBook before the pBook (if they offer it in a webscription).
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Originally Posted by delphidb96
... because Baen has stated numerous times that the various titles in Baen's Free Library and the titles released for free on bundled CDs (all of which can be freely copied and given away) have drawn in new customers and have acted as positive marketing tools for their dead-tree titles...
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Thanks for the info Derek - I'm glad it is working out for them. They got me - I'll be getting the webscription month for all the authors new releases that I've discovered via the free library.
To be honest though I would have to wonder if that model would work well for others. I think part of the success of the Baen model is that they are a niche and all of the titles are somewhat related in genre. It may not work so well for larger publishers with a broader range of books, although some of their imprints (like Tor) it may work quite well for.