PSA

[rolanni]

Baen Books will be publishing the dead tree editions of both Fledgling and Saltation.

Fledgling is scheduled to be published in September 2009. Saltation, which is as yet incomplete in first draft, will be published Sometime After That; our best guess is Summer 2010.

Those generous people who donated $25 or more to the project-or-projects as they were being written will receive a signed copy of the pertinent novel-or-novels when said novel-or-novels is/are published. We cannot, with the best will in the world, send you a copy of the book before it is published.

Thank you.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming at Eagles over the Kennebec.

Comments

[grassrose.livejournal.com]

We cannot, with the best will in the world, send you a copy of the book before it is published.

Well, rats! Guess I'll have to wait. I didn't make the Fledgling pre-order list (missed it by a couple of days! I demand a recount!), but I managed to get into the Saltation lineup.

Now to figure out how to get my Fledgling copy signed, once it's published and I buy it on the open market...

:o)

~ R

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Just for clarity -- will Baen books also be putting out the normal ebook versions? So that we can get our bits in our preferred formats for digital injection?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Does Baen not do ebook editions of some of its books? All of our contracts have included erights as part of the deal.

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Best of my knowledge, they always do. But I hadn't seen it mentioned, and thought it was better to ask than to be (unpleasantly) surprised.

Thanks! All kinds of wonderful news recently.

Ebook rights

[(Anonymous)]

TTBOMK Baen now always tries to include the ebooks rights, but in the past there have been some books that they published in print but could not put out on webscriptions ...

... best example was Lois Bujold. A number of her books were printed prior to beginning of webscriptions in 1999. E-rights were not addressed in the Baen contracts and Lois did some 'testing of the waters' ebook-wise with other ebooks publishers.

This would become general knowledge primarily by Barflies making requests for particular Baen titles to be added to webscriptions.

Brom

[katmoonshaker.livejournal.com]

::happy dance::