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Old 09-18-2007, 08:45 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by jasonkchapman View Post
Yes, I should have been more clear.

What Baen did was to put out e-book X in order to sell p-book Y. The HC person doesn't appear to care about putting out e-book X, though. The intention seems to be to put out sample X in order to sell p-book X. Maybe, just maybe, if enough people beg them, they'll think about putting out an e-book edition.
I hadn't thought of it that way, but you are correct.

Baen didn't know what would happen when they got into the ebook market back in 2001(2002?).

But that was 5 plus years ago. Now, Baen is making a profit on its ebook sales, as is Fictionwise, Mobipocket, and a bunch of others. It is now an established fact that there is a potential market for HC ebooks. There is no need to test it by offering fragments of ebooks. Offer the real thing; see what happens. What HC is doing is probably stupid and certainly pointless.
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