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Originally Posted by stustaff
I *get* that you dont understand what devils advocate means!
I love Baens books, specially the honour harrington series and many others. The reason they are less valuable is that they are worth less, thats why Baen sell them for less. It certainly doesnt mean they arent as good!
I was however making the point that Baen are not a company selling AAA author titles that would sell in Hardback at $25 each so they are making the right decision marketing wise for THEM.
That does not mean that if macmillan were to follow the same marketing strategy as Baen that they would be succesful, also im fairly confident that macmillan male more money than Baen, so it could be argued quite sensibly that macmillans way works better!
Again where did I say I dont like Baen? or their marketing?
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I dunno, let's just guess I derived this view from your statement of Baen's work being 'less valuable', 'worth less'...
For me, I've read many-many books from both MacM and Baen and proportionately, I find I like Baen titles more often than MacM titles. (Granted, Baen has a more limited stable of authors, but the *QUALITY* shines through for a far higher percentage of their titles!)
Massive revenues generated doesn't make MacM a 'success' if they have to acknowledge that a far higher percentage of their offerings don't 'earn' enough...
Even so, you say you like Baen, I'm a-goin' to accept that as the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
If MacM is such a 'success' then why does it feel it has to gouge more money from it's customers to break even??? Hmmm???
And I'd figure that a 50% increase in ebook prices translates to an automatic 50% increase in authors' royalties on those titles, yes? What's that you say, it doesn't? I'm shocked!
Derek