Baen's ebooks website gets a makeover

pdurrant · 01-02-2012, 01:15 PM

The website that sells Baen Publishing's ebooks, as well as ebooks from a few other small publishers, has had a makeover and has a new web address.

It's now to be found at http://www.baenebooks.com/

They still offer the same range of ebooks, including their monthly bundles which are now sensibly called "Monthly Baen Bundles".

It's nice to see that independents are still around, despite Amazon's dominance.

RDaneel54 · 01-02-2012, 01:18 PM

My same login/password works there too. They also imported my wishlist.

pdurrant · 01-02-2012, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by RDaneel54

My same login/password works there too. They also imported my wishlist.

I think it's just a fresh look rather than a new server. But hopefully it means that they are doing development for more improvements in the future.

CRussel · 01-02-2012, 02:01 PM

Also, if you have a link, etc, to the old Webscriptions site, there's an automatic redirect in place, so it shouldn't be an issue.

rdjack21 · 01-02-2012, 03:41 PM

As someone who spends way to much money buying Baen books I think it is great that they are investing in there web site. Now what I would really like to see is for them to expose a services API such that we could purchase book directly from within Calibre.

bgalbrecht · 01-02-2012, 08:16 PM

Arnold Bailey retired from running Webscriptions in late 2010 and Mark Van Name (one of the Baen authors) took over running it. My guess is that they finally replaced the software and/or hardware it was using when Arnold ran the site.

VicLavigne · 01-02-2012, 08:22 PM

Navigating the new website doesn't feel that much different than their old one. I had a couple purchases from earlier this year - oops, make that 2011 - and they are still available for me to redownload which is nice.

Vic

mewmartigan · 01-03-2012, 10:06 AM

If you have Baen send books directly to your Kindle, remember to go to Amazon and change the "allowed email address" to the new one.

gbm · 01-03-2012, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by rdjack21

As someone who spends way to much money buying Baen books I think it is great that they are investing in there web site. Now what I would really like to see is for them to expose a services API such that we could purchase book directly from within Calibre.

In calibre, you go to Get Books, Get Stores, Baen WebScription, takes you to Baenebooks login and buy then download to calibre libray.

bernie

01-02-2012, 01:15 PM	#1
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 74,432 Karma: 318076944 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Oasis	Baen's ebooks website gets a makeover The website that sells Baen Publishing's ebooks, as well as ebooks from a few other small publishers, has had a makeover and has a new web address. It's now to be found at http://www.baenebooks.com/ They still offer the same range of ebooks, including their monthly bundles which are now sensibly called "Monthly Baen Bundles". It's nice to see that independents are still around, despite Amazon's dominance. Last edited by pdurrant; 01-02-2012 at 04:10 PM.

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01-02-2012, 01:18 PM	#2
RDaneel54 Aging Positronic Brain Posts: 633 Karma: 2155452 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Aurora (when off-Earth) Device: Amazon Oasis; iPhone, iPad Mini	My same login/password works there too. They also imported my wishlist.

01-02-2012, 02:01 PM	#4
CRussel (he/him/his) Posts: 12,322 Karma: 80074820 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Sunshine Coast, BC Device: Oasis (Gen3),Paperwhite (Gen10), Voyage, Paperwhite(orig), iPad Air M3	Also, if you have a link, etc, to the old Webscriptions site, there's an automatic redirect in place, so it shouldn't be an issue.

01-02-2012, 03:41 PM	#5
rdjack21 Groupie Posts: 153 Karma: 3241792 Join Date: May 2011 Device: Elocity A7, Nook STR, Galaxy Nexus	As someone who spends way to much money buying Baen books I think it is great that they are investing in there web site. Now what I would really like to see is for them to expose a services API such that we could purchase book directly from within Calibre.

01-02-2012, 08:16 PM	#6
bgalbrecht Wizard Posts: 1,806 Karma: 13399999 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: US Device: Nook Simple Touch, Kobo Glo HD, Kobo Clara HD, Kindle 4	Arnold Bailey retired from running Webscriptions in late 2010 and Mark Van Name (one of the Baen authors) took over running it. My guess is that they finally replaced the software and/or hardware it was using when Arnold ran the site.

01-02-2012, 08:22 PM	#7
VicLavigne e-reading since 2008 Posts: 197 Karma: 112730 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Hinesville Georgia Device: Nook STR, Sony PRS-T1	Navigating the new website doesn't feel that much different than their old one. I had a couple purchases from earlier this year - oops, make that 2011 - and they are still available for me to redownload which is nice. Vic

01-03-2012, 10:06 AM	#8
mewmartigan Guru Posts: 852 Karma: 8242060 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: Kindle Oasis (2019)	If you have Baen send books directly to your Kindle, remember to go to Amazon and change the "allowed email address" to the new one.

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