Good news for Kindle users
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rolanniThe following wonderful news is excerpted from a note from Toni Weisskopf, publisher of Baen Books:
Well, it’s time: I can now officially say that we are making the transition to selling ebooks with Amazon on December 15th 2012. (We are also negotiating will all the other platforms, and will announce as soon as possible when we start selling with them.) . . . It does mean prices for our individual ebooks will be going up to meet the rest of the market (but yes, all titles will be DRM free). Individual hardcovers will be $9.99, trade pbs $8.99, and pbs $6.99. As part of the adjustment, we will also be raising ebook royalties to authors by 25% so that they get the benefit of both more sales (we hope) and higher prices.
Me again: That's December 15. Mark your calendars.
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Date: 2012-12-10 09:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-10 09:23 pm (UTC)You can still buy ebooks at Baen.com, with the same new pricing scheduled outlined in Toni's letter, above, and some new wrinkles with how the "bundles" can be sold, which I confess I don't understand, at all, having not understood bundles in their original form.
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Date: 2012-12-10 09:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-11 01:25 am (UTC)No Grinch before Christmas?
Date: 2012-12-11 02:41 am (UTC)So, if I can summarize:
1. Dec. 15, 2012 -- all the old bundles and old pricing fade away. So buy fast!
2. After that, we'll have something like the following options going on:
a. eArcs from baenebooks.com for new books, at their current pricing. Available only until the regular version is released.
b. Before the hardcopy release, new monthly bundles will continue to be available for 3 months at their current low, low price of $18. (BEST BARGAIN!) But when the hardcopy release hits, the bundle goes away, and...
c. Ebooks will be individually priced based on what hardcopy is available. Starting at $9.99 for hardback, $7.99 for tradepaper, and $6.99 for mass market paperbacks. Prices will adjust to follow the hardcopy, so something that sells for hardback/tradepaper pricing early may be available later at the $6.99 price.
d. Prices at the baenebook store for ebooks and bundles from other publishers may not change, because (a) those publishers set their own prices and (b) they will not be "pushed" to the Kindle system.
e. The Baen Free Library will be repopulated, and new titles added. In some cases, this depends on making a "first edition" for the BFL and a sufficiently different "second edition" for sale, so it isn't going to be an instant process, but it will happen.
f. "It depends" -- Toni pointed out that special cases may well exist.
The really good news here is that Baen ebooks will be available in the Kindle store. AND at the baenebooks site, too! Wider exposure, more sales, benefits all around. I think this is a win-win for everybody.
'nother Mike
BaenEbooks.com Still an option
Date: 2012-12-10 09:36 pm (UTC)Books will only be available in the monthly bundles until the actual release date of the new books in the bundle. At which point the bundle will stop being available. And the $18 price of the bundles will not change any time soon, making the bundle a good deal even if there are only two books in the bundle you want. But older bundles will cease to be available as of December 15th, so if you have any you've been thinking of getting, now would be a really good time to buy!
This will also mean more $$ in the author's pockets, since Baen has just bumped up their percentage by 25% as well. So while you may sob, I'm quite sure that Ms. Lee will not.
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Date: 2012-12-10 09:45 pm (UTC)Re: BaenEbooks.com Still an option
Date: 2012-12-10 09:58 pm (UTC)Re: BaenEbooks.com Still an option
Date: 2012-12-10 10:14 pm (UTC)Re: BaenEbooks.com Still an option
Date: 2012-12-10 10:46 pm (UTC)Re: BaenEbooks.com Still an option
Date: 2012-12-10 11:02 pm (UTC)Re: BaenEbooks.com Still an option
Date: 2012-12-11 03:38 am (UTC)You should know that we will still be able to sell exclusively at Baen.com eARCs and discounted, serialized monthly bundles at our previous prices. Two caveats: once the book is printed and the books made available individually at other sellers, these editions will not be made available for orders. So you’ll need to be quick off the bat if you really want those. And also instead of making the serialization cumulative, you will only receive one third of the novel in each bundle, so you’ll have to manually create the whole file if you want to store it that way, and the earlier chapters may not be the final, proofread version.
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Date: 2012-12-12 04:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-10 11:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-10 11:11 pm (UTC)Planning to buy Crystal Variation, Dragon Variation, Agent Gambit, and Korval's Game in e-format; wondered if I had to make four additional separate purchases to have all of Theo as well.
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Date: 2012-12-10 11:23 pm (UTC)The Baen titles: Fledgling, Saltation, Mouse and Dragon, Ghost Ship, Dragon Ship, and (soon) Necessity's Child aren't far enough along in their cycles to be omnibused yet. Ghost Ship only came out in mass market in August, and Dragon Ship won't see its mmp release until August-coming.
Besides, the Theo arc isn't done yet. :)
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Date: 2012-12-11 02:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-11 02:19 am (UTC)Baen e-books
Date: 2012-12-12 08:26 am (UTC)What happened to my comment?
Date: 2012-12-12 08:28 am (UTC)