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	Baen Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baen Books is an American publishing company established in 1983 by SF publishing industry long-timer Jim Baen.
		Although Baen himself is politically conservative (which has led to friction with and departures by at least one liberal author), he publishes works covering a broad spectrum of political philosophies.
		Baen Books also hosts a large online community in which the publisher, authors, and many readers take part via Baen's Bar, an internet forum with personal forums for the publisher and each author.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baen (462 words)

	Jim Baen (Founder, Baen Books)
		The science fiction publishing industry is constantly complaining of poor sales and fickle customers, yet independent house Baen Books has done a steady business providing space opera and military sci-fi by the likes of David Weber, Lois McMaster Bujold and relative newcomer John Ringo.
		Baen is celebrating its 20th anniversary through 2003.
		Perhaps though I am confusing the lamentable state of SF with the equally lamentable state of fiction publishing, which I believe to be a result of the wide-and-growing-wider supply of electronic entertainment of all kinds.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Dec03/jimbaen.htm (952 words)

	Baen's Bar, A Successful Community, by Walt Boyes
		Baen got an interesting idea about two + years ago: He suggested to his authors that they should post "snippets" of works in progress, to get continuity checks, reality checks, historical and logical consistency checks, and, oh yeah, to whet appetites for the books when they finally came out.
		One of the most interesting of Baen's uses of community is his counter to the fact that midlist authors are hard to push.
		Baen encourages his midlist authors to participate actively in the Bar community, and sales of Baen's midlist books have steadily increased, because people get to know them, see snippets of their work, and they buy books they probably never would have ot herwise.
	www.learningfountain.com /baensbar.htm (751 words)

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		Baen Books, who do a lot of series publishing, have found that giving away electronic editions of the previous installments in their series to coincide with the release of a new volume sells the hell out of the new book -- and the backlist.
		The Gutenberg press meant that rather than owning one or two books, a member of the ruling class could amass a library, and that rather than picking only a few subjects from enshrinement in print, a huge variety of subjects could be addressed on paper and handed from person to person.
		This is interesting because the history of the book is the history of the Enlightenment, the Reformation, the Pilgrims, and, ultimately the colonizing of the Americas and the American Revolution.
	www.craphound.com /ebooksneitherenorbooks.txt (5441 words)

	Chicon 2000: Editor Guest of Honor: Jim Baen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Baen - [laughs] Along with Larry Niven, I am not the person people would think of when they name "Mister Tact." And this may be why I have a group of writers I work with - we become friends, and then I don't have to worry about being socially adept.
		Baen - I think it very definitely shaped the birth of the space program, and is still an influence although not as great.
		Baen - I think of them as "the rice bowl crowd," because they have to go begging for grants to fill up their bowls.
	www.chicon.org /gohs/baen.htm (3171 words)

	That's All I've Got to Say: Raving about Baen
		Webscriptions was the first; a few years back, Baen decided that they would make monthly ebook versions of the new books they published each month available as a downloadable bundle.
		Out of this came the idea for the Baen Free Library: authors who cared to do so could make one or more of their Baen works available for free download—and many did; there are now over two dozen books in the Free Library that can be downloaded at no charge.
		Perhaps the biggest reason is that Jim Baen feels that most people these days prefer tree-books to ebooks for pleasure reading—but when given the chance to read a book in electronic format, they may read enough of it to decide they like it enough to purchase the actual physical product.
	www.terrania.us /journal/2004/10/raving-about-baen.html (953 words)

	La Raza - Publisher\'s Web books spur hardcover sales
		Baen is particularly surprised that the electronic downloads have even stimulated sales of the company's hardcover books.
		It is a striking puzzle: the more e-texts Baen Books makes available cheaply or free, the more it has been able to sell the most expensive kind of printed book.
		Baen, anticipating the power of the online media, established the policy two years ago of buying all electronic rights when it strikes a book deal with an author.
	www.laraza.com /news.php?nid=21331 (1100 words)

	Baen Free Library
		I shared books and music with friends, and I borrowed tons of both from the school and public libraries.
		There was only one used book store within the twenty mile radius that I considered easy bicycle distance and the pickings were slim.
		Baen wants you hooked, and they are willing to spend money to do it.
	baen.ghostwheel.com (816 words)

	Jim Baen Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		I got interested in Interviewing Jim Baen for this section on The Future of Reading after I met him at the World Science Fiction convention, where he was the Publisher Guest of Honor.
		I think Baen Books is using electronic media extremely well as a complement to its traditional, and still primary, business of publishing paper books.
		After all they are in the Bar because they like the books we publish, so when they get to talking about them what it amounts to is refining and clarifying and unifying generally positive opinions.
	www.futurist.com /futuristnews/archive/Jim_Baen_Interview.htm (1486 words)

	Life After 'Harry': Baen Books Announces the Cure for PPD (Post-Potter Depression)
		Baen Books has the recipe to keep the spirit of Hogwarts alive - and the Muggles at bay.
		Great books written by great storytellers are the secret to creating lifetime readers, and Baen Books, with a special list on its website (http://www.baen.com) of titles suitable for young adults and a series of special bookseller offers this fall highlighting these titles, is helping feed their craving.
		Baen Books has over 50 million copies in print and for 25 years has been publishing the best in fantasy and science fiction.
	www.ereleases.com /pr/20050811001.html (317 words)

	Mattingly-Links
		Baen books has one of the most entertaining web sites in all of publishing, with a lively discussion board, samples, and unexpected extras.
		Scholastic is the publisher of the Harry Potter books, along with the Animorphs, Everworld, and Jedi Quest series that I did the covers for.
		Pat Turner is one of the mainstays of the Baen Books line, and does wonderful combinations of CGI and traditional painting.
	www.davidmattingly.com /Pages/Links.html (890 words)

	Baen Webscriptions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Baen Books has announced Webscriptions, a $10 a month service that serializes upcoming frontlist titles, for the three months before the title is released.
		I feel that Baen is taking an important step here in realizing that the benefits far outweigh the risks here, and I hope that they extend this service to their midlist as well, especially new and unknown writers that are trying to break in to the field.
		They are giving the electronic version of a number of their books in a give away free for the down-loading.
	www.fiawol.com /943518318/index_html (379 words)

	Pocket PC magazine Forum - My Favorite Ebook Site
		Most authors view the availability of electronic books as an invitation to piracy, while others view it as just another medium which can be used as a vehicle for making money on the books.
		Now I am as much in favor of paying for a book if I want to keep it as much as the next guy, but to think that checking a book out of the library is akin to stealing goes beyond the pale of ridiculous.
		Baen is making an investment on the future with their free library.
	www.pocketpcmag.com /forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=8733 (1399 words)

	E-Books - QuickTopic free message board hosting
		Baen Books doesn’t encrypt its electronic text “in any sense whatsoever,” according to Jim Baen.
		Visitors to the site can read books on their browsers, they can download e-books, or they can download it to their desktop in Microsoft Word.
		Both e-pistolary and epistolary novels reflect a shift in the culture -- new technology for e-mail books, an increase in literacy, and by extension letter writing, during the 18th century.
	www.quicktopic.com /23/H/tt3CdqBFHFNVh (900 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Sentry Peak (Baen Fantasy): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The generals are given similar names in the book, but they keep their true natures.
		The book covers the Tennessee fron in 1863, when U S Grant (General Bart in the book), took over from Roscrans (Guildenstern in the book) and got things moving by driving General Bragg (in the book - Thraxton) out of Tennessee in spite of an almost impossible position.
		The book uses magic to replace science and thus has spells, flying carpets, and crossbows, and even has unicorns instead of horses in the cavalry - makes a very interesting tale out of a subject that many classes study through in boredom.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0671318462 (404 words)

	EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - Baen Free Library
		I think that this line of thinking is far more applicable to books (especially in a genre dominated by multi-book series rather than individual books) than it is to the music industry.
		Getting the first book in a series free is far more likely to get me to fork over my money for future books than getting the first song free is likely to get me to buy a CD.
		I recall Flint being asked on the Baen forum just after the first CD version of the library came out with a book about how he felt about people copying the CD and giving it to their friends.
	www.enworld.org /showthread.php?t=90970 (3100 words)

	Jack L. Chalker's Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Book is a WW2 novel, not SF, although h John W. Campbell is a minor character.
		Baen will be reprinting in a year or two if it's not in print at the moment.
		Contains all four "Diamond" books (#s 12,13, 15, and 17) although slightly rewritten by me to eliminate some recap that was needed in the four but unnecessary in a single volume edition.
	www.jackchalker.com /jlc-bib.htm (6563 words)

	Locus Online: April 1st 2003 News
		A book deal to reprint the stories is also in the works, but no agreement has been reached yet.
		"For example," said Baen, "a canny author could literally double their advance if they were willing to rename their novel Exile at the Well of Sprite, or Neuromancer XP." Baen indicated that while neither of these were currently Baen books, he would not rule out sublicensing agreements from other publishers for particularly product-placement-friendly works.
		Baen said that the readers and writers would be the ultimate beneficiaries from the deal.
	www.locusmag.com /2003/News/News0401a.html (1832 words)

	Science Fiction Santa Flies High With The Navy! Publisher Jim Baen Sends Entertaining Words To Our Troops
		Baen is the publisher of Baen Books (www.baen.com), an independent science fiction and fantasy imprint, which is the best selling producer of military science fiction in the world.
		Baen has shipped 5,000 books, and accompanying CD-ROMs this year alone (target for next year: 10,000) as part of the program.
		Baen Books has just begun participating in the Navy's Commercial Sponsorship Program and looks forward to doing so for years to come.
	www.ereleases.com /pr/2003-12-16c.html (413 words)

	Books, Listed by Author
		The book is a collaboration with Roland Green, but for commercial reasons only Pournelle’s name is on the cover and in the advertising.
		V/Spring 1986 (with James Baen) (Baen 0-671-65572-8, May ’86 [Apr ’86], $2.95, 284pp, pb) The paperback magazine of science fiction and science fact” is more of an anthology and Baen catalog than a magazine.
		Baen is the actual editor, with Pournelle in an advisory role.
	www.locusmag.com /index/b382.html (2597 words)

	Baen Gallery 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It portrays the main character of the book not as others see her, but as she sees herself.
		This was one of Charles' first science fiction book covers, created for In the Company of Mind by Steven Piziks (Baen Books 1998).
		In 1998 Baen honored Charles with his first commission for a hardback book: The Apocalypse Troll by David Weber (1998 Baen Books).
	www.keeganprints.com /Baengal2.htm (137 words)

	[FAQ] alt.books.david-weber
		With Baen's practice of posting a substantial number of sample chapters online well before release of the books, the possibility of inflicting spoilage on people who want to devour the book all at once upon release or are waiting for paperback release has now gotten too high.
		The Baen Books Website has sample chapters and a discussion board for addicts of Baen products (large Weberphile contingent) and a separate board for virtual mercenaries to play in at http://www.baen.com/.
		The latter books in particular featured not-implausible science (based on what was believed at the time it was written), a meticulously detailed plot spread over several self contained stories, characters changing and developing, space battles on a galactic scale and truly awesome weaponry.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/sf/david-weber (7482 words)

	MBR: Internet Bookwatch, July 2004
		The Great Minnesota Touring Book: 30 Spectacular Auto Trips by Thomas Huhti is a superbly organized and presented traveler's guide to planning a personal or family road trip vacation among Minnesota's most scenic, historical, or exciting places.
		Book One of R.A. Salvatore's "The Hunter's Blade" trilogy, The Lone Drow is the story of Drizzi Do'Urden who is the bane of the orc hordes still ravaging the North.
		Cut off, alone, convinced that everything he ever valued has been destroyed and all that's left is to kill until there are no enemies left, the reader is carried along on an expertly crafted action/adventure fantasy tale that is replete with memorable characters, dire situations, vividly drawn backgrounds, and horrific battles.
	www.midwestbookreview.com /ibw/jul_04.htm (15858 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Baen Books
		Jim Baen started his publishing career, appropriately enough, in the complaint department of Ace Books after stints in the Army, at CCNY, and in Greenwich Village in the Sixties working as the manager of a folk music coffee shop (a "basket house").
		Baen Books has become a market leader, publishing books at the heart of SF, by authors such as David Drake, Lois McMaster Bujold, Elizabeth Moon, David Weber, James Hogan, Mercedes Lackey, Larry Niven and many more.
		Jim Baen is very active on the baen.com website, "Baen's Bar," where his interests in evolutionary biology, space technology, politics, military history, and bad puns are discussed along with science fiction.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/BaenBookseBooks.htm (2511 words)

	Sci-Fi Site of the Week: Baen Books
		Baen features its current crop of new books on its home page, all with cover art and links to synopses.
		The image is available for purchase at higher resolutions, and Baen plans to offer signed posters in the future.
		Overall it's very easy to find information on any book or author, which is just what most users would expect from a publisher's Web site.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue9/web.html (386 words)

	Baen Gallery 1
		This piece was Charles' first commission from Baen Books, for Rob Chilson's Black as Blood (1998 Baen Books).
		The book has a sixties "Creepy" feel to it - horror with a sense of humor.
		The concept for the painting was described by Jim Baen.
	www.keeganprints.com /Baengal1.htm (206 words)

	Open Access News
		We also know that every book in our library, regardless of its copyright status today, will eventually fall into the public domain and be owned by society.
		By digitizing today’s books, through our own efforts and in partnership with others, we are protecting the written word for all time.
		NAP books like this are OA for reading, but do not support cutting and pasting, making it difficult to quote an excerpt.
	www.eprints.org /fosblog.php (7344 words)

	Amazon.com: One Foot in the Grave: Books: Wm. Mark Simmons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		His books are always a fun, rollicking adventure, filled with interesting theories, delightful personalities and suitably evil villains.
		I enjoyed that for most of the book, Chris is weirded out and skeptical of the people around him and of the changes in his body as a real person would be.
		It was like the book suddenly took a turn into the campy horror that it was making fun of all along.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671877216?v=glance (2328 words)

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