The weather was not the most pleasant but I got out and walked. Apparently I had a lot on my mind today.
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Captain Sar I see where you fixed the link at Solarclipper for get the books but the tabs for quarter half and full still have the old covers and links to Ridan
http://solarclipper.com/get-the-books/quarter-share/
>.< It's always something. Fixed. I think.
The Miles Vorkosigan books are all still published through Baen, but Baen finally just gave in and started using Amazon. They had been battling with Amazon for a long time over prices and the fact that they liked to sell ebook bundles on their own website. The prices did end up going up (used to all be around $6), but I heard they also raised author rates so … meh. Anyway, they sell ebooks that are out as mass market at $6.99, ebooks out as trade paperback at $8.99, and ebooks only out as hardcover at $9.99. I’m not entirely happy about it, but it’s a lot better than most publishers.
I just checked up on Baen’s site. It looks like they still sell ebooks on their own site, but also sell via Amazon. BTW, I do not believe this is a recent change. I have seen Vorkosigan books on Amazon for a long time…
http://www.baen.com/pressrelease122012.asp
Started in mid December. Before that they only sold physical books on amazon.
Most of David Drake’s books are 6.99 now as well.
There are several of David Drake’s books free at Amazon in Kindle format.
http://solarclipper.com/get-the-books/ebook-store/
Baen got beat down 🙁
Ms. Bujold has had an issue with Baen, as somehow she was set up in the Baen CD-ROM project, although from discussion in one group, she did not fully understand what was to be put on that CD-ROM (namely, her entire backlist of Vorkosigan novels, save Memory) and accused more than a few people of piracy.
As I understand it, what Baen is aiming to do is put all of the Baen Free Library books out as new editions, which would have a price on their site, as well as Amazon, while leaving the older editions as freebies.
Ultimately, I’m going to wait and see what Baen ends up doing. Their latest E-books newsletter says they plan to have some new books coming out soon in the BFL, which will be wonderful I think.
It’s a strange new world we’re living in, with contributions from Aldous Huxley and George Orwell – but from Sir Thomas More, as well…
Thanks for clarifying that – I did not realise what was going on. About this deal with Amazon, I wonder what will this mean for readers want to buy e-books in EPUB or other formats than supported by Amazon. The AZW format is proprietary, given its strange compression operations on what is a MOBI variant.
They are still selling ebooks on their own site in all of the other formats.