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Originally Posted by Xenophon
Pete:
By and large, the authors love it. They volunteer their books for the Free Library.
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My mistake - I had the impression (wrong, obviously!) that this 'gradual reduction in price down to bargain bucket freebies, model' was part of the publishers contract, rather than an author-led act of self-promotion.
I confess, I have looked at Baen's site before, but never managed to get beyond the 'exploding spaceships' home page. Today I did, and the free library (and Eric Flint's introduction to it) looks very interesting, so many thanks for pointing me that way. And yes, I did download a couple of books, just to take a look...
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It's counter-intuitive, but the empirical results are that books put into the free library increase in value -- and boost the careers of the authors as well.
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Absolutely - which begs the question, if it works so well, why aren't more authors doing this - especially authors with books out of print. How difficult can it be for an author to self-publish an eBook after the hard work (the writing) is done? Obviously there may be contract issues with existing publishers, and if a book is old enough, it may not actually exist in an electronic form, but even so I would have expected to see more of it.
Pete.