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(PRLEAP.COM) "We’ve tested a lot of e-book waters, including various cockamamie schemes involving overpriced e-books laden with DRM," says TOR Books Executive Editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden.

"Oddly enough," Hayden continues, "a lot of those ‘books’ didn’t even sell enough copies to pay for their file-conversion costs. Meanwhile, it hasn’t escaped our notice that Jim Baen has been doing something that works, that people like, and that makes money. I’m delighted to be doing this pilot program; I think Jim has been clueful on this issue for a long time, while almost everyone else in publishing has been staggering around on stage hitting one another over the head with inflated pig bladders."

Jim Baen’s Universe is published as a bimonthly online magazine, beginning June 2006, with over 150,000 words per issue, making it far larger than a typical magazine. The magazine can be read online, or in a variety of downloadable formats, including Acrobat PDF, Mobipocket, Microsoft Reader, RTF, and others.
As with all of Baen Publishing’s electronic offerings, Jim Baen’s Universe is published completely unencrypted and without any Digital Rights Management schemes or copy protection.



Hey, Patrick, I liked the Guiilvers Travels reference.

Butler will be missed. I wish I could articulate why, and what an important person she was, but words are failing me now.

Lots of indie labels sell without DRM. DRM is a result of the Big Four music labels conspiring to keep control of things by extraordinarily stupid means.

The thing is, the size they are, they don't have to care how many people they piss off, as long as the majority of customers keep paying whatever the market can bear.

Four corporations control about 70% of the world's music. What they say, goes.

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