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Old 06-24-2010, 11:54 AM   #20
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David Weber in particular has been very generous with his older books, allowing Baen to release them for free like that. I wish other publishers would look at this model and see how successful it actually is.
And he's picked up quite a few loyal readers that way. Certainly I'd never read any of his stuff before the *free* copy of On Basilisk Station that I downloaded as a sample over a decade ago. And I've used those free ebooks to hook quite a few others over the subsequent years.

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