Comments on: Another source for Kindle books: The Baen Free Library and Webscriptions

By: Robert Carlos

Robert Carlos — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:26:21 +0000

The price is fair enough, however, there are not enough ebook out there and the website is hard to navigate. I still prefer using Calibre to get free ebook. BTW, you can get free epub books for children from Snee project.

By: kindleweblog

kindleweblog — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:39:59 +0000

Good website the alternate website for get the new kindle.

By: Paul Wirtz

Paul Wirtz — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:09:11 +0000

Also you can set Baen as a allowed emailer for your Kindle and Baen will email it to your Kindle, regular $.15 charge applies.

They are the ‘GOLD’ standard for what an ebook store should be like.

By: Frode Aleksandersen

Frode Aleksandersen — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:53:15 +0000

7- If you’re interested in SF/Fantasy, Baen has an excellent stable of authors. They’ve also recently started picking up some classic works from the big names as well (Heinlein, Poul Anderson, Zelazny etc).

By: Felix Torres

Felix Torres — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:53:51 +0000

Nice summary.
Of further note:

1- BAEN ebooks are sold bundled via webscriptions *and* individually from the storefront. (Webscriptions are not traditional subscriptions; each month rolls out a new bundle but you only buy the bundle you choose. All bundles ever released are still on sale.)

2- Webscriptions also sells regular (quarterly?) bundles of ebooks from other specialty/fantasy publishers plus individual titles from authors who control their own ebook rights and choose to use the Webscription storefront. They recently started bringing in e-editions of classic works from the 50′s and 60′s.

3- Webscription ebooks are *book* sales, not *file* sales. The sale is recorded and you are able to do recurrent downloads of your purchased titles in any of the many supported formats. If you bought a book in 2003 in LIT format and then got a Sony in 2007 and a Kindle in 2009 all you would have to do is download the new version. In the last year, they’ve added ePub support.

4- When you buy a webscription bundle, it allows you to nominate a friend/associate to receive a free promotional webscription bundle.

5- More recently, Baen has started to offer entire series in special promotional bundles (usually when the author joins the ebook party) offering limited-time bundles. They also offer early-release Advanced Reader Copies of select high-visibility titles (at a premium price) months before the print edition.

6- Not all their innovations end well, though; their three-year effort at a monthly monster anthology ebook “magazine”, JIM BAEN’S UNIVERSE is coming to an end this year, as it never quite reached critical mass. Hopefully it will be resurrected in a few years, once ebooks are fully mainstreamed.

For those of us into ebooks and Fantasy and SF books, Baen is generally understood to be “the good guys”.