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How is Baen doing?
Anybody actually know how Baen is doing? I love Bean's business practices, their free library, DRM-Free ebooks for $6. I love the types of books they publish.
However, most everything I've read on their site was written a LONG time ago. It's been something like 8 years since Eric Flint has written a "Prime Palavar" on the Baen Free library talking about free ebooks and how they helped sales.
With the kindle, nook, sony, iPad and all the smart phones -- just how is their free ebook system working for them today? I could well expect someone who was reading those free ebooks on a computer to go out and buy a pbook. But those of us with ebook devices, those free ebooks leave us no reason to then go out and buy a book.
They release $6 copies of their ebooks the same day their brand new hard backs go on sale for near $20. What has this practice done to their hard back sales?
Through the fifth Imperium website, the cd's from the hard back book gives us a huge catalog of free ebooks beyond what the Baen Freel Library has. Baen isn't simply giving away the first book or two of a series, but entire series.
They rarely put new books in the Free Library, I noticed. Have they changed their minds?
Anyone "in the know"?
Lee
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