[LMB] E-book readers - do not forget Baen and NAEB

[B. Ross Ashley]

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:27:51 -0600, "Ed Burkhead" <edburkhead at insightbb.com>
wrote:
 > Actually, it was a website called baenbooks.com that linked me over
 > to BooksOnBoard.  I was then under the impression that BooksOnBoard
 > was Baen's outlet.  Perhaps baenbooks.com is a spoof site that
 > just links people to Baen's competitors?

Dunno about spoof site, that just looks like a redirect from one of the 
DNS servers.

[snip]
 > Some of what I read indicated that Baen's MobiPocket formatted
 > books are DRM free but I can't find a word on the
 > webscription.net website about the format.  When I clicked on
 > a free download book Baen gives away as an author sample, there
 > were several formats available.  But is that true for all
 > their books?

Yeah, all their books are DRM free, and available in all those formats. 
They have the most intelligent policy on this issue of any publisher Out 
There IMHO. I am not privy to their sales figures so I do not know 
whether any assertions of improved sales are true or not, but I would 
trust Flint's assurances that it's a Good Thing for the writers too, as 
most of his books are published by Baen and he's making a good living at 
it.

 > I think the DRM issue will drive the purchase choice.

For sure it will keep me far, far away from the Sony product.
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