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	Jim Baen's Universe Goes Naked-- eMagazine to Launch Without Copy Protection
		Baen Free Library (http://www.baen.com/library/)is a collection of free ebooks by major authors (Flint, David Drake, Mercedes Lackey, and others) that are totally free of copy protection.
		Baen Books (http://www.baen.com) is one of the largest publishers of science fiction and fantasy in the world.
		Baen's Bar (http://www.baen.com/bar/)is the home of the lively and large discussion forums that began in the late 1990s to discuss science fiction, fantasy, Baen books, politics, religion and anything else that a thread can drift to.
	www.prweb.com /releases/2006/5/prweb390496.htm (539 words)

	Amazon.com: Reviews for Baen Books: Website Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I was lucky enough to have a laptop, and because of the free library I was able to store over one hundred books on a small thumb drive and have a library on hand with me. I started with "Anti-Grav Unlimited", and worked my way through most of the library, reading whenever I had downtime.
		Jim Baen, founder of Baen Books recently passed away, that is a loss for the literary world because he was a man who saw the future of publishing and embraced it.
		Baen's free library allowed me to find a lot of new scifi authors, some of them have even become favorite authors, such as Eric Flint, David Drake, and John Ringo.
	www.amazon.com /Baen-Books/dp/customer-reviews/B00006B03O (1955 words)

	101: Jim Baen
		Baen intrigued me not only because I once consumed large quantities of science fiction, but because he was an experimental pioneer in the file-sharing arena.
		And so we are blessed with the Baen Free Library, where Eric Flint, David Drake, David Weber, and other top selling SF authors offer some of their books for free: unabridged, no strings attached, and with the full blessing of their publisher.
		Baen agreed, as long as Flint's books would be the ones to go online, and so it happened (see NSD 7.01).
	101squadron.com /2006/07/jim-baen.html (630 words)

	Free Library Home Page
		The reason for the second provision is that one of the things we hope the Baen Free Library will do is make it easier for a broader audience to become familiar with less well known authors.
		Jim Baen is quite confident that, as technology changes the way books are produced and sold, he can figure out ways to keep that "gap" reasonable — and thus make money for himself and his authors in the process, by using the new technology rather than screaming about it.
		Users of the Library are welcome — encouraged, in fact — to send in their comments and questions, on any subject which is relevant to the Library and its contents.
	www.baen.com /library/home.htm (2740 words)

	Baen Free Library
		Baen Books is now making available -- for free -- a number of its titles in electronic format.
		Jim Baen is quite confident that, as technology changes the way books are produced and sold, he can figure out ways to keep that "gap" reasonable -- and thus make money for himself and his authors in the process, by using the new technology rather than screaming about it.
		One final note.Users of the Library are welcome -- encouraged, in fact -- to send in their comments and questions, on any subject which is relevant to the Library and its contents.
	toykeeper.net /soapbox/baen_free_library (2563 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)

	Martin's updated Access.html for Baen's WebScriptions eBooks
		Baen is a major publisher of Speculative Fiction in Dead Tree and eBook formats.
		Jim Baen and others believe that currently eBooks help to increase the sales of dead tree editions, so Baen gives away a number of eBooks for free in the Baen Free Library and on CD-ROM's (eight so far, with two more soon) included with selected Baen Hardcovers.
		For the Free Library and CD eBooks there should be two other directories at the same level as the Webscription directory.
	www.bonham.net.nz /SF/Baen/WS/index.htm (1630 words)

	articles : August 2006 - Jim Baen's Universe
		Jim Baen was in a position to prove what others like myself could only argue; or, at best, demonstrate by such things as making many of my titles available for free in electronic format.
		About two-thirds of all my titles are available for free to the public in the Baen Free Library, which we opened in December 2000, not much more than a year after the start of Webscriptions.
		And that a clear and practical alternative exists, created and maintained by Jim Baen, that guts all the claims made by DRM advocates that their anti-democratic policies are essential for the preservation of copyright and the livelihood of authors, artists, and other intellectual creators.
	www.baens-universe.com /articles/ed2 (3219 words)

	Baen Free Library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Baen Free Library is a digital library of the science fiction and fantasy publishing house Baen Books where (as of April 2006) 81 full books are available for free download in a number of formats, without copy protection.
		It was founded in autumn 1999 by science fiction writer Eric Flint and publisher Jim Baen to determine whether the availability of books free of charge on the Internet encourages or discourages the sale of their paper books.
		The Baen Free Library represents an interesting experiment in the field of intellectual property and copyright.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baen_Free_Library (948 words)

	Baen Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jim Baen was succeeded as publisher in 2006 by the appointment of long-time executive editor Toni Weisskopf.
		Baen Books was founded in 1983 out of a negotiated agreement between Jim Baen and Simon and Schuster.
		Baen was primarily a paperback publishing house until 1999, when Webscriptions was introduced.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baen_Books (1386 words)

	Free EBooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		They are free and provide a comfortable reading experience that is light years beyond text files in a wordprocessor.
		Library management is a joke, but the author is working on it.
		There is a drop down menu at the top of every page with links to the table of contents, library, etc. The scroll bar at the bottom is clearly marked with page numbers and will instantly take you anywhere you want to go.
	lavplourde.tripod.com /freebies/ebooks.htm (797 words)

	Jim Baen eulogy
		Baen also thought that the fact that modern book distribution was killing the chances of new authors to get published, and more established midlist authors to keep their books in print.
		Baen's legacy will live on, and not only in the publishing house he founded, and the magazine that bears his name.
		One of the last things JIm Baen did in his life was approve using the Baen Free Library as the seed stock for creating a general online library for science fiction and fantasy.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /news/arc/2006/nz10258.php (611 words)

	Print version
		Digital libraries can be created on a stand alone computer, made part of the school network, or placed on the internet.
		EBooks are available through online libraries, bookstores, or they can be created from common forms of electronic text with readily available programs, which are often available free.
		Baen Science Fiction (http://www.baen.com) includes a large number of its current titles on CD for free sharing if you buy their hardbacks with the CD inside.
	www.unf.edu /~tcavanau/presentations/NECC/2004/eBook_library.htm (1603 words)

	Baen Free Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Baen wants you hooked, and they are willing to spend money to do it.
		This site is free, and will remain on-line for as long as I am able to afford the bandwidth.
		Putting two ads on this one page is too little too late, so I have no way to fund the bandwidth for this on an ongoing basis.) I encourage you to continue reading the Baen Free Library at the Baen site.
	baen.ghostwheel.com /Honorverse/index.htm (816 words)

	Features : Building the Baen Free Library
		As a practical proposition, the theory behind the Free Library is that, certainly in the long run, it benefits an author to have a certain number of free or cheap titles readily available to the public.
		Making one or a few titles of an author's writings available for free electronically in the Free Library seems to have no other impact, certainly over time, than to increase that author's general audience recognition--and thereby, indirectly if not directly, the sales of his or her books.
		I'd also like to say that the Baen logo on a book is now sufficient to convert me from mild interest in a book to purchasing it, regardless of the author, simply because I have enjoyed what I've read from the Baen free library.
	www.speculations.com /?t=189167 (3909 words)

	articles : A Matter of Principle - Jim Baen's Universe
		Furthermore, there will usually be a number of specific matters relevant to each issue of the magazine that I will need to address in "The Editor's Page" that would simply get in the way of this discussion.
		Neither for me nor for Jim Baen is the issue of DRM primarily an economic or practical issue.
		In addition to being the general editor of Baen's Universe, Eric Flint has his own web sites at the ever-popular 1632.org and at ericflint.net.
	www.baens-universe.com /articles/principle (2308 words)

	LaunchPad Zero :: Baen Free Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		One of the things I have been meaning to post is a link to Baen Books’ Free Library.
		Baen books has made available, for free download or reading online, over 50 of the books that they publish.
		Like the free CDs Baen includes with some of their books, they are freely distributable (although you may not charge money for them).
	www.launchpadzero.net /Weblog/lzblog.php?p=91 (221 words)

	Bill McCoy: eBook pioneer Jim Baen, RIP
		I enjoy science fiction and a Baen Books best-seller 1632 was the first eBook that I read as immersively as if it were a paper book - a credit to the content, much more than to the e-Reading experience.
		Groundbreaking efforts by Jim Baen to market digital and paper forms of work in combination include the Baen Free Library, the Webscription program, Advance Reader Copies.
		That was at the heart of his innovations of the Free Library and Webscriptions.
	blogs.adobe.com /billmccoy/2006/06/ebook_pioneer_j.html (1747 words)

	Jim Baen - In Memorandum
		Unfortunately, Jim Baen and I never met in person and now never will, so I am forced to cast my mind back to the time when a young schoolchild like myself first heard of Jim and Baen Books.
		The Edinburgh Public Libraries were low on Baen Books (I think that myself, John and Andrew have done wonders in encouraging them to buy more), but I devoured what I found…and then started forking out the cash for more.
		Baen Books became a market leader in the field of ebooks, publishing a handful of free books through the Baen Free Library, and allowing cash-strapped readers like myself to read books before actually forking over more than a few dollars.
	www.changingthetimes.net /essays/jim_baen.htm (504 words)

	L'Ombre de l'Olivier
		The always excellent Baen Free Library has been updated with Eric Flint's Rivers of War (not a Baen book) and Elizabeth Moon's Sheepfarmer's Daughter.
		Furthermore, Eric promises that the library will be updated rather more frequently over the next year or so than it has been in the past.
		In the same essay he also points out how Baen's ebook policy - low prices, no DRM - has a track record that forces others to take note, soemthing that was obvious this spring when Tor appeared to be embracing the Baen approach and Baen's webscriptions.
	www.di2.nu /200612/05.htm (1303 words)

	Free Reads Online Part #1: The Baen Free Library - Grouse! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		He was a man who not only understood how the internet could improve the selling and distribution of books, he was prepared to put his own money on the line to prove the point.
		The Baen Free Library is where any of the authors he published can give away their work.
		Free of charge, totally unencumbered by any kind of rights management, downloadable books.
	grouse.net.au /archives/152-Free-Reads-Online-Part-1-The-Baen-Free-Library.html (318 words)

	Free Books Online
		Baen on their free CDs: "The publisher figures you will start reading many of the genuinely first-rate novels provided herein, and discover that you really don't want to continue reading on a computer screen.
		Baen and Tor are also using this as the free sample for "Northworld Trilogy", which presumably consists of all three books.
		There are more free samples of David Drake's work available from Baen's Author Catalogue.
	www.mindspring.com /~jbednorz/Free/index.htm (6060 words)

	PR Leap: Great SciFi Editor Jim Baen Passes
		With bestselling author, Eric Flint, another of his discoveries, he founded the Baen Free Library, and later went on to found the incredibly successful magazine, Jim Baen’s Universe, published both online and in downloadable formats, as well as in a physical edition in an unencrypted CD format.
		Later this year, a new library will be launched under the name of “The Science Fiction Public Library,” which will expand the mission of the Baen Free Library, and ReadAssist.org, to the entire field, and, hopefully, all publishers.
		Condolences may be left in the In Memoriam conference on Baen’s Bar (http://www.baen.com/bar).
	www.prleap.com /pr/40081 (663 words)

	World eBook Library Baen Free Library
		Recently, Baen Books has enjoyed a string of New York Times bestsellers by such authors as David Weber, John Ringo and Eric Flint.
		Jim Baen was a personal and vocal champion of unencrypted ebooks.
		The Baen Books Webscriptions program is a model in the field, and the discussion board at http://bar.baen.com, “Baen’s Bar,” is an active forum and thriving online community.
	worldlibrary.net /Baen.htm (355 words)

	Eric Flint: Free the Books!
		As a practical proposition, the theory behind the Free Library is that, certainly in the long run, it benefits an author to have a certain number of free or cheap titles of theirs readily available to the public.
		What the Free Library provides--as do traditional libraries, or simply the old familiar phenomenon of friends lending each other books--is a way for people to investigate a new author for free, before they plunk down any money.
		His writing career began auspiciously with the impressive first novel, Mother of Demons (Baen), which was selected by Science Fiction Chronicle as one of the best novels of the year With David Drake, he has collaborated on An Oblique Approach and In the Heart of Darkness, the first two novels in the "Belisarius" series.
	www.counterpunch.org /flint0419.html (3435 words)

	O'Keefe Library-Best Information on the Net - English Resources
		Gutenberg Bible --fully digitized by the British Library, searchable, it includes history and background info.
		Internet Public Library of Online Texts--this one is searchable not only by author and title, but by Dewey classification.
		Jules Verne Virtual Library -- full-text of all his works in both French and English.
	library.sau.edu /bestinfo/Majors/English/engfull.htm (464 words)

	Enigma - Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The library currently contains over 1000 items, and is currently housed at the FIRM.
		All club members are free to borrow from the library by contacting the club librarian, who will arrange for books to be available for pickup at the next Monday night meeting.
		Baen Free Library - Selected complete novels from Baen authors.
	www.studentgroups.ucla.edu /enigma/library.html (126 words)

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