Oh noes! Fics never written meme.

[antennapedia]

Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd

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[draconin]

That was a great link to the article on Amazon. Thanks! Quite apart from the interesting article, it contained a link to Baen Books. I knew about the company from many years ago but only as a book publisher for many of my favourite authors (Moon, Lackey, McMaster Bujold, Weber) and didn't realise that they'd gone into ebooks.

I had a look at their site and I *really* like their business model where, when you buy a book, you actually buy the book instead of 'renting' it as you do in the ridiculous Amazon/Kindle model (which I've never gone for). Once bought, you can then download it any number of times in any of a dozen different formats. Including Kindle format if that's what you want. Very much the "enlightened self interest" style of business.

They also have quite a range of books that are free (eg first one in a series free, the rest not). Even when you buy the books are FAR cheaper than via Amazon. For example, $6 for The Deed of Paksenarrion, vs $22! I just wish they had as great a range of authors!

After a raid of their free section and spending ~$50 I now have reading material for some time to come. :-)

[antennapedia]

Baen has been getting this right for *ages*. They're up there with O'Reilly Books in leading the publishing industry on tech. $6 for Paksenarrion is a major deal for readers, and probably still solid profit for Baen & Elizabeth Moon both after all those years in print.

[draconin]

Do you know of any other publishers who have a similar deal? I am primarily a reader of SF and Fantasy but I do read other authors too. Plus a lot of my favourite authors aren't with Baen. I've bookmarked O'Reilly but I'm not looking for tech manuals at the moment.

ETD: I did a bit of searching but without much success. The only ones I found were somewhat similar to Amazon in that, even when they offered a purchase model rather than a rent one, they still only allowed download to their proprietary software. I'm quite happy with what I have! (Calibre on the PC and Aldiko on the Android phone.)