A good friend of mine recently reintroduced me to the Baen Free Library which is a great site if you are interested in a potential future direction of publishing in our internet age.
Eric Flint's essay, "Introducing the Baen Free Library", is an excellent manifesto on why publishing houses should make their books freely available on-line. Baen, not only makes makes its newest editions available on-line for modest prices (i.e. many of their electronic format books are $4 versus $8 for the paperback edition if available), it makes the complete text of most of their earily holidings available for free. Amazing, you say. Impossible, you cry. Why do they do it, you should ask. Read Eric Flint's piece, be prepared to slap your forehead and utter a resounding , "Well, of course, Duh!"
--jmc.
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