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What are the execs at Holtzbrinck smoking??? I suppose 75% of the hardbound price might be ok when the book is only available in hardcover, but it's hardly going to fly once the book is available in paperback. And at that price, the "gift economy value" is still there. By this I mean that Baen books in general aren't worth much on the darknet in terms of geek value, because they aren't locked, you don't have to scan and OCR them, and they're reasonably priced, so you get no cred with the rest of the darknet if you try to give them away. But at US$18, someone willing to put down the money is going to be in for some amount of the nebulous value of the gift economy if they share.
(I'm not saying I encourage this behavior, or approve of it. I'm just predicting.)
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