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"OP" = Original Poster.
I suspect Baen knows the market far better than we do, especially their corner of the market, and knows what their customers want. They do SF/fantasy, and they do it very well, and if they're smart, they'll stick to their strengths. I've seen plenty of companies (several of them former employers) who tried to do otherwise. The outcomes were not good. They're no longer in business.
Besides, all the mystery series I really want to read as ebooks belong to other publishers already. Even if the authors aren't under contract for future books, they wouldn't be able to take their backlist to Baen for years.
It might be more practical to write to the publishers of those series and plead with them to release books that are both reasonably priced and not DRM-restricted. There are two chances of this happening, though: fat and slim.
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