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Originally Posted by Lemurion
"I'd heard Holtzbrink changed it's mind on DRM, but I don't know the current status of the Baen/Tor deal."
The last I've heard is that it's back with the lawyers and we should hear the results in Q2.
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That will be good.
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As to Tom Doherty's personal beliefs on DRM and free e-books it should be remembered that he owns 1/3 of Baen so if he had a real problem with that he likely would have pulled his money out.
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Tom wouldn't. He may just be the savviest guy in publishing, and I think it's likely Jim Baen talked to Tom before committing to the Free Library.
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I do agree that the real benefit of free e-books comes from what it does to publicize authors.
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Baen has proved it does.
Jim stated in email a while back that the goal of the Free Library was to promote their pbooks, and he didn't see pure epublishing as a source of profit at the time.
That's changed, and I think he'd be delighted to see the Webscriptions program doing as well as it has been.
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Dennis