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Originally Posted by fjtorres
There is that *perception* but it is inaccurate.
The Webscriptions catalog is well vested in fantasy, urban fantasy, hard sf, spoofs and romps, alternate history, mystery, juveniles, and other genre variants. They may be home to some of the more prominent practicioners of military sf, but it hardly consumes them.
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Checking out the webscriptions they're generally about 50% military SF and 50% all-the-rest.
Which is a pretty heavy concentration on military SF, really. Wouldn't a bookstore that was 50% vampire books seem like it was mostly vampire books? Wouldn't a store that was 50% urban fantasy seem like it was mostly urban fantasy?
Don't get me wrong; I like Baen very much. But I don't care for most military SF which means the Webscriptions themselves are generally not a good value for me. Sure you can find non-military stuff on Baen, but you have to look for it, which usually means you have to already know which authors you want to check out. There's no equivalent of the "If you like this book you might like" sorts of pages you get on, for example, the Amazon web site.
On the other hand, I would *love* to have other publishers do what Baen is doing--making a wider selection of books--mysteries, westerns, historical fiction-- available at Baen style prices with Baen style terms would do nothing but good for e-books and readers.