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Baen soon coming to iBooks, finally posts announcements of changes to web site

Chris Meadows — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:13:53 +0000

A month and a half since Baen made the jump to Amazon availability, the publisher is about to add another feather to its cap. On her forum on the Baen Bar, publisher Toni Weisskopf has mentioned that Baen e-books will soon be available DRM-free in Apple’s iBooks store. A formal announcement will be made when [...]

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Baen/Amazon deal takes effect December 15

Chris Meadows — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 04:31:28 +0000

Since I originally posted about Baen’s deal with Amazon, a couple more details of about the deal have come to light. First of all, the deadline for buying any of the old Baen bundles is Saturday, December 15th. That’s when the deal with Amazon goes live, and the old $10, $15, and $18 monthly bundles [...]

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Baen inks deal with Amazon, makes major changes to Webscriptions and Free Library

Chris Meadows — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 04:22:58 +0000

Toni Weisskopf has posted a series of messages to the Baen Bar indicating major changes in the offing for the Baen Ebooks (nee Webscriptions) store. Baen is finally on the verge of getting its titles placed directly into Amazon (and is negotiating with others such as Barnes & Noble, etc.) The problem is, that comes [...]

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Tor/Forge e-books to be completely DRM-free by July

Chris Meadows — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:40:58 +0000

Well, that didn’t take very long. The first major publishing imprint has announced it is going to go entirely DRM-free. Tor/Forge has just posted a press announcement to Tor.com that its entire list of e-books will be available DRM-free, both through the current vendors and through retailers that can only sell DRM-free e-books, by July [...]

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Baen Webscriptions is now BaenEbooks.com

Chris Meadows — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:36:38 +0000

Baen has rebranded its Webscriptions program, changing the name of the site to BaenEbooks.com, redesigning its look, and renaming the monthly e-book package program to “Monthly Baen Bundles”. All account information and previously purchased bundles will remain the same under the new site, though users who have set up their Kindles to receive e-books by [...]

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E-book Review: A Beautiful Friendship (Stephanie Harrington #1)

Chris Meadows — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:22:15 +0000

Previously: Introduction Treecat Trilogy Young Honor and Elizabeth Prince Michael rescues and Honor dances On Basilisk Station The Honor of the Queen The Short Victorious War Irresponsible captain, itinerant noble Field of Dishonor Continuing my review of Honor Harrington stories and novels in chronological order: A Beautiful Friendship by David Weber For this book, we [...]

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RIP, old Readability bookmarklet; I will miss you

Chris Meadows — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:02:13 +0000

Readability disabled its old bookmarklet this afternoon, redirecting the script reference to its new browser applet instead. Rationally, I can see why they would have to do it—if they’re wanting to track pages viewed for the purpose of doling out content payments, they have to channel them through a source that can actually track those [...]

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Charlie Stross: Why a middle Merchant Princes book has no e-book

Chris Meadows — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 03:23:41 +0000

Charlie Stross has posted to his blog about the mysterious absence of one of his Merchant Princes series—not the first book or most recent one, but a middle book in the series—as an e-book. The problem, Stross explains, is that the missing book, The Merchant Wars, fell between two periods of Tor e-book activity. The [...]

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E-reader donation drive sends Kindle 2s to soldiers in the Middle East

Chris Meadows — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:15:00 +0000

iReaderReview reports on a seriously cool idea that could get a lot of e-reading devices in the hands of soldiers overseas. E-Books for Troops is running a Kindle 2 donation drive, asking readers who are upgrading to Kindle 3s to send in their working Kindle 2s so that they can be shipped to soldiers. (Kindle [...]

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Sharon Lee & Steve Miller hold contest to give away free e-books

Chris Meadows — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:43:05 +0000

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, authors of the Liaden Universe stories (including the Storyteller’s-Bowl-financed drafts of Fledgling and Saltation that I mentioned here), are holding an e-book giveaway contest to give away 36 e-book copies of The Dragon Variation, the omnibus edition of the first three novels (chronologically) of the “main” Liaden Universe series. The [...]

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

Chris Meadows — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:20:15 +0000

Many new Kindle owners may not be aware that they are not entirely locked into the Amazon ecosystem. There are a number of places where public-domain books can be downloaded for free, such as Feedbooks and ManyBooks. But there are also places where commercial e-books can be purchased. And while conflicting DRM may muddle the [...]

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Book Review: Fledgling, by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller

Chris Meadows — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:18:03 +0000

Fledgling, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, is a fun return to their Liaden universe, the first half of a bildungsroman for a character who has been the subject of Liaden fan curiosity for the longest time. That being said, it also makes a good jumping-on point for people new to the Liaden universe. I [...]

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