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nb first published January 2010

• VLM 14y ago
  I was surprised to see its only two years old. When it discussed the Baen Free Library as if it were a new experiment, I had to check the article date as the "new" Baen experiment is over a decade old now. I like the Baen library, its resulted in my spending lots of money on Baen products. This is not new, public libraries have been providing the same free marketing service to print books for centuries now. I thought the article claim that $10 would be a fair price to be ridiculous because there needs to be a market between "I wouldn't read it at the public library for free" and "$10 minimum". There's a lot of people making a dollar here or there on the kindle marketplace by either cleanly and correctly reformatting Project Gutenberg books into kindle format, or ripping people off who think they're getting cleaned up kindle format PG files but its just a junk file or poorly done. Maybe I'd buy 100 different $1 books on the off chance I'll want to read them, or a half dozen for $10 if I feel its a sure bet by a favored author, or $50 if I am obligated by school or work. It would seem profits favor the $1 book.