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by QuickSHADOWMAN on Tue Dec 02, 2003 at 04:14:21 AM PDT

Well, I will have to check out Bean once again. I just love the Honor Harrington series. I have read the whole series, and am in the last chapeters of "Crown of Slaves" where David Weber and Eric Flint collaborated in the Honor Universe. Good book, too. Now while I waited till the Library got in the Hard Cover editions, I do want to have the whole collection for myself. By having it on CD, makes it more practicle to me, to have the whole collection, a lot less shelf space, and as I get older, just zoom in to have bigger print as the eyes go with age. Can't do that with the print of old.
Sincerely, Rich Aka: QuickSHADOWMAN 100% Windows Free, and loving it. M$, RIAA, MPAA, the leaders of all that is wrong with the Electronic Age. Lin
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Baen leads the way[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#21)
by drcmg on Tue Dec 02, 2003 at 03:39:01 PM PDT

Not only does Baen put CDs with whole series of books on them and offer free ebooks on their Baen Free Library site (http://www.baen.com/library/), but they also offer all of the books they publish early as ebooks on their Webscriptions site (http://www.webscription.net/) These are released about three weeks before the books show up on the bookstore shelves. Baen offers all of their ebooks in multiple formats: HTML Zip, icrosoft Reader Zip, Palm/Win CE/Psion Zip (Mobipocket), Rich Text Format Zip, and Rocket/RCA REB1100 Zip. These are not encrypted nor crippled in any way. In the time since I bumped into the Baen Free Library I have spent hundreds on Baen books both in ebook and hardback format. I have also bought used books as well. One of the things I have found myself doing is buying a used book by an author I don't know just because it was published by Baen. Very often this gets me started on a new author and I end up buying new books by that author. Baen is doing what the record companies used to do when they sent records to radio stations to get them played. If a person heard the record and liked it they would buy it. No one ever used the excuse: If they can hear it on the radio free there's no incentive to buy it. Baen's actions prove that exposure results in sales. Eric Flint on the free site gives documentation of increased royalties on books that are given away on the free site. How does one explain this? Like me, after reading the ebook many want to have the physical book to put in their library. The Honor Harrington series has been mentioned. I have all of the in hardbacks of this series, I have the first of the series that I got free, I have the last 5 that I purchased on the webscriptions site, and I have the CD with all of them. Of these I bought all the hardbacks and the last 5 as ebooks. I bought the ebooks first and then bought the hardbacks when they came out. As far as I know I also have every other book written by David Weber, most in both ebook and hardback format. Although I do have a few in paperback that were purchased used simply because that is the only way they are available. I also have all the David Drake, Eric Flint, Elizabeth Moon, John Dalmas, John Ringo, and K. D. Wentworth that I can find. Most of these in two formats. Prior to find the free site I had not one book by any of these authors. Exposure brings sales. Now if we could just get the rest of the publishing industry and the music, movie, and software industries to understand this Ed could take about half of the gripes he gets and throw them out.

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