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by gawaine on Fri Feb 20, 2004 at 11:24:11 AM PDT

Commenting on the previous -- I've now read, and purchased in paperback or hardcover, everything that John Ringo has written, along with the works of David Weber. I don't think there's any way I ever would have done that if it hadn't been for the baen library. That would have been my loss. Other authors there have also benefited to various extents.

I respect the choices of publishers not to publish in ebook format, but I know that for me, it's resulted in spending about three hundred dollars last year on baen that otherwise might have gone to one of their competitors. If you add in the three people I recommended the site it to, and their purchases, there's about a thousand dollars that Baen wouldn't have gotten. Eric Flint's Prime Palaver, his newsletter on the library, has gone through some of the increases in revenue authors have seen, and I'm not the only one throwing money their way - imagine, advertising helps!

I should also say that there are a few authors on Baen whose books I didn't enjoy. I didn't buy them. It's that simple; it didn't cost them an arm and a leg to give me the chance to like them, and in the end, it didn't hurt them. Meanwhile, I gave them a chance.

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