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Baen Books

January 26, 2023

Baen Books (/ˈbeɪn/) is an American publishing house for science fiction and fantasy. In science fiction, it emphasizes space opera, hard science fiction, and military science fiction. The company was established in 1983 by science fiction publisher and editor Jim Baen. After his death in 2006, he was succeeded as publisher by long-time executive editor Toni Weisskopf.

Baen Books
Founded1983
FounderJim Baen
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationWake Forest, North Carolina
DistributionSimon & Schuster (US)[1]
Diamond Book Distributors (UK)[2]
Key peopleToni Weisskopf
Publication typesBooks
Fiction genresScience fiction, fantasy
Official websitewww.baen.com

History

Baen Books was founded in 1983 out of a negotiated agreement between Jim Baen and Simon & Schuster. Simon & Schuster was undergoing massive reorganization and wanted to hire Baen to head and revitalize the science fiction line of its Pocket Books division. Baen, with financial backing from some friends, counteroffered with a proposal to start up a new company named Baen Books and provide Simon & Schuster with a science fiction line to distribute instead.[3]

According to Locus's 2004 Book Summary,[4] Baen Books was the ninth most active publisher in the U.S. in terms of most books published in the genres indicated, and the fifth most active publisher of the dedicated science fiction imprints, publishing a total of 67 titles (of which 40 were original titles). It is difficult to judge the issue of quality but, based on the number of times a title published by Baen Books appeared in the bestseller lists produced by the major bookselling chains, it is ranked the seventh most popular science fiction publisher. In 2005, Baen moved up to the eighth position in the total books published with 72 books published (of which 40 were original titles).[5]

Electronic publishing

Main article: Baen Ebooks

Beginning in mid-1999, Baen emphasized electronic publishing and Internet-focused promotions for its publications. The discussions on Baen's bar convinced him to do so.[6] Baen's electronic strategy is explained exhaustively in a series of "letters" or "essays" called The Prime Palaver by Baen Free Library "First Librarian" Eric Flint,[7] but in a nutshell, emphasizes distribution of unencrypted digital versions of its works free of Digital Rights Management copy protection schemes through Baen Ebooks (formerly Webscriptions, which was not formally part of Baen Books, but in effect an independent e-publisher). Baen and his successors believe that DRM does more harm than good to a publisher. Consequently, Baen also makes its entire catalog available in multiple formats for downloading and typically prices electronic versions of its books at or below that of paperback editions—and makes a profit doing it.[6] According to essays on Baen's science fiction e-magazine Jim Baen's Universe, also edited by Flint, the strategy is if anything, getting stronger and more fruitful with the passage of time, especially with the advent of e-book readers such as the Amazon Kindle, and the Barnes & Noble Nook.[citation needed]

Baen's Bar

Initially, the company invested resources in "Baen's Bar", its online community service that provides a forum for customers, authors, and editors to interact, beginning as a BBS. In the early 2000s, a blogger wrote: "Like every other publisher, Jim Baen set up a website. But several of his authors and fan friends convinced him to put a chat client on his site. Since he was interested, and since several of those authors (like Jerry Pournelle, a former columnist for Byte Magazine, for instance) were very Internet savvy, he did. The chat client grew into an incredibly vibrant community called Baen's Bar."[6]

On February 15, 2021, American author Jason Sanford posted via Patreon "Baen Books Forum Being Used to Advocate for Political Violence".[8] Publisher Toni Weisskopf released a statement saying the Bar will remain closed pending an investigation.[9] The site was reopened on April 9, 2021.[10]

Baen's Webscriptions

In addition to selling individual titles in electronic format, Baen has distributed serialized e-book versions of new books at reduced prices in monthly bundles. Originally called Webscriptions, these Monthly Baen Bundles are scheduled three months in advance of print publication. Webscription.net was implemented by Baen's preferred website expert, Arnold Bailey, who also sold e-books for other publishers. At the start of 2012, the Webscription.net website was redesigned, renamed to Baen Ebooks, and moved to baenebooks.com. Despite the new name, Baen Ebooks continues to sell e-books for other publishers, notably science fiction genre rival Night Shade Books.

Baen's standard setup is based on monthly bundles. Each month, whichever books Baen has coming out in paper (paperback or hardcover, new or reissued) are bundled put together in a fixed price (currently $18) bundle regardless of the number of books (historically 4–9 books, average 5–6). The Monthly Baen Bundles are released in installments beginning three months prior to physical publication. The first installment, released three months prior to paper publication includes roughly a half of every book in the bundle, with some books usually included in their entirety. The second installment, two months prior to print publication includes roughly three quarters, and the third installment on the 16th of the month prior to official print release includes the full text. The first two installments are generally available only as HTML, while the last includes all formats supported. Each bundle can only be bought until the 15th of the month prior to official print publication, which is about the time the printed books reach retailers.[11] (Until December 2012, bundles remained on sale indefinitely.)

Another avenue for distribution that Baen uses for some of its new titles is the offering of eARCs (electronic advance reading copies) 3 to 5 months prior to publication. Marketed as a premium product for the fans who absolutely positively have to read it now, they are priced at $15 per single title and can differ from the final text (as they are electronic proofs). After print publication, the "cleaned up and finalized" electronic copy is available both online through the monthly bundle or as a single title (priced variably $7–10, older titles are less).[11]

The electronic versions by Baen are produced in five common formats (HTML, Palm Pilot/Mobipocket/Kindle format, Rocketbook, EPUB/Stanza, Sony LRF, RTF, and MS Reader versions), all unencrypted in drastic contrast to the rest of the e-publishing industries strategy. Jim Baen disliked Adobe's portable document format for reading purposes, but Baen Ebooks offers some non-Baen titles in that format. When customers purchase a title from Baen, they can read it online or download it in any format they want as often as they want. Baen instituted a parallel practice of using promotional CD-ROMs with permissive copyright licenses containing many of its stable of authors' works. Whether downloaded or by CD-ROM, the source material is available in all the formats Baen supports.

The great majority of books published by Baen are still available as e-books, long after the hardcover or paperback versions have gone out of print. This is especially important for midlist titles, which rarely get reprinted. Until December 2012, it was also possible to purchase older monthly bundles.

Baen has made liberal use of free content in its marketing efforts. For example, free sample chapters of its books are typically available on the Baen Web site. The "Baen Free Library" allows free access to dozens of titles from the company's backlist, often the first book published in a series by a Baen author. Baen also provides free electronic copies of its books to readers who are blind, paralyzed, dyslexic, or are amputees.

Baen's emphasis on electronic publishing has generated press coverage for the company. In 2001, Wired magazine described Webscriptions as "innovative".[12] Charles N. Brown, publisher of Locus magazine, has praised Baen's approach in an interview in The New York Times, saying "Baen has shown that putting up electronic versions of books doesn't cost you sales. It gains you a larger audience for all of your books. As a result, they've done quite well."[13]

Magazine experiments

Baen's first run at magazine-style book publishing took place in the late 1970s, in the form of Destinies,[14] a quarterly 'bookazine' that featured fiction and non-fiction by well-known and new authors that Baen was promoting. It was published by Ace, where Baen was employed at the time. Under the aegis of Baen Books in the 1980s, he published two more bookazine series. The first was Far Frontiers.[15] The second was New Destinies,[14] edited by Baen, Elizabeth Mitchell, and Michael A. Banks.

The Grantville Gazettes

Main article: The Grantville Gazettes

Baen's began the experimental publication of The Grantville Gazette, an e-magazine anthology series specifically related to the popular Ring of Fire alternate history plenum. The Gazettes are professionally edited and approved fan fiction. They are published on a regular schedule and available individually at Baen Books or Amazon, or by subscription.[16]

Jim Baen's Universe

Main article: Jim Baen's Universe

In the early 2000s, Baen tried magazine-like publishing again, establishing two self-sustaining e-zine enterprises with a separate staff for each, both spearheaded by Eric Flint: Jim Baen's Universe[17][18] and the Grantville Gazette[16] series, which was reconfigured after Grantville Gazette V.

The general audience speculative fiction anthology Baen's Universe is available only online. At approximately 120,000 words, this latter publication is unusually large when compared to most traditional print editions of science fiction magazines, and the average size of the newly reconfigured Gazettes is similarly generous.

Baen Digital Object Identifiers (DOI)

From 1999 to 2011, Baen's e-books were produced by Webscriptions under contract for Baen Books in various (at least five) common digital formats. Because these multiple formats complicate the issue of identifying electronic versions, Baen and Webscriptions did not use DOIs to identify their e-books (even though some of their books had DOIs). The electronic e-ARC practices also complicate things in "publications dates", since the first released text starts two to three months before the release of the print copy, though the released text is not guaranteed to fully copy edited—and so occasionally differs from the final released fully copy-edited versions. Thus, like the Grantville Gazettes the e-publication date antedates the print copy by about two months—the interval before the release of the last third and the hardcover print edition is simultaneously released.

Authors and works

Authors

Authors whose works have been published by Baen include the following:

Series

Series published by Baen include the following:

References

  1. ^ "Our Clients | Simon & Schuster Distribution Services". www.simonandschusterpublishing.com.
  2. ^ "Our Publishers".
  3. ^ "JIM BAEN October 22, 1943 – June 28, 2006" February 28, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, Baen's obituary by David Drake, david-drake.com.
  4. ^ Locus, February 2005. Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 50–54.
  5. ^ Locus, February 2006, Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 50–53.
  6. ^ a b c Boyes, Walt. . The Learning Fountain. Archived from the original on September 30, 2011. Retrieved November 30, 2007.
  7. ^
  8. ^ Sanford, Jason (February 15, 2021). "Baen Books Forum Being Used to Advocate for Political Violence". Patreon. patreon.com. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  9. ^ Mike Glyer (February 15, 2021). "Weisskopf Announces Hiatus for Baen's Bar". File 770. file770.com. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  10. ^ Weisskopf, Toni (April 9, 2021). "What I Saw at the Bar 2021". from the original on May 7, 2021. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
  11. ^ a b "Baen Print Newsletter". baen.com. December 2012. from the original on February 20, 2014. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
  12. ^ Rose, M.j. (March 13, 2001). "Authors to Protest Amazon". Wired. from the original on February 20, 2014. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
  13. ^ O'Connell, Pamela Licalzi (March 19, 2001). "Publisher's Web Books Spur Hardcover Sales". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. from the original on February 20, 2014. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
  14. ^ a b "Culture : Destinies : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
  15. ^ "Culture : Far Frontiers : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
  16. ^ a b "About Us". The Grantville Gazette. February 2019. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
  17. ^ "Culture : Jim Baen's Universe". Science Fiction Encyclopedia. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
  18. ^ Flint, Eric (May 20, 2008). The Best of Jim Baen's Universe. ISBN 978-1416555582.

External links

  • Official website  
  • Baen Books at isfdb.org
  • Baen Ebooks website
  • Baen Free Library at Baen Ebooks
  • —various columns, Editors, and otherwise, no subscription needed.
  • the publisher's second foray into e-zine publishing; merged with Grantville Gazette
  • Baen's Bar Online—All e-manuscript submissions for either of the above e-zines have to go through this door into the two sub-forums 1632 Slush or JBU "Universe Slush" conference. Baen's Bar is the only submission mechanism for submitting stories to two professional SF magazines.
  • Baen's Grantville Gazettes—First (originally experimental) e-zine, the gazette is unique in that it is canonical for the best selling 1632 series.
  • —"Salvos Against Big Brother" and "The Editor's Page"; "Salvos" are similar essays by editor Flint specifically focused on DRM and Baen's electronic publishing policies.
  • Free Baen materials for the disabled at www.ReadAssist.org
  • Index of Baen on-line resources June 17, 2013, at the Wayback Machine at www.allensmith.net
  • , most discussing copy protection and Baen's e-policies.

January 26, 2023
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Baen Books ˈ b eɪ n is an American publishing house for science fiction and fantasy In science fiction it emphasizes space opera hard science fiction and military science fiction The company was established in 1983 by science fiction publisher and editor Jim Baen After his death in 2006 he was succeeded as publisher by long time executive editor Toni Weisskopf Baen BooksFounded1983FounderJim BaenCountry of originUnited StatesHeadquarters locationWake Forest North CarolinaDistributionSimon amp Schuster US 1 Diamond Book Distributors UK 2 Key peopleToni WeisskopfPublication typesBooksFiction genresScience fiction fantasyOfficial websitewww wbr baen wbr com Contents 1 History 2 Electronic publishing 2 1 Baen s Bar 2 2 Baen s Webscriptions 2 3 Magazine experiments 2 3 1 The Grantville Gazettes 2 3 2 Jim Baen s Universe 2 4 Baen Digital Object Identifiers DOI 3 Authors and works 3 1 Authors 3 2 Series 4 References 5 External linksHistory EditBaen Books was founded in 1983 out of a negotiated agreement between Jim Baen and Simon amp Schuster Simon amp Schuster was undergoing massive reorganization and wanted to hire Baen to head and revitalize the science fiction line of its Pocket Books division Baen with financial backing from some friends counteroffered with a proposal to start up a new company named Baen Books and provide Simon amp Schuster with a science fiction line to distribute instead 3 According to Locus s 2004 Book Summary 4 Baen Books was the ninth most active publisher in the U S in terms of most books published in the genres indicated and the fifth most active publisher of the dedicated science fiction imprints publishing a total of 67 titles of which 40 were original titles It is difficult to judge the issue of quality but based on the number of times a title published by Baen Books appeared in the bestseller lists produced by the major bookselling chains it is ranked the seventh most popular science fiction publisher In 2005 Baen moved up to the eighth position in the total books published with 72 books published of which 40 were original titles 5 Electronic publishing EditMain article Baen Ebooks Beginning in mid 1999 Baen emphasized electronic publishing and Internet focused promotions for its publications The discussions on Baen s bar convinced him to do so 6 Baen s electronic strategy is explained exhaustively in a series of letters or essays called The Prime Palaver by Baen Free Library First Librarian Eric Flint 7 but in a nutshell emphasizes distribution of unencrypted digital versions of its works free of Digital Rights Management copy protection schemes through Baen Ebooks formerly Webscriptions which was not formally part of Baen Books but in effect an independent e publisher Baen and his successors believe that DRM does more harm than good to a publisher Consequently Baen also makes its entire catalog available in multiple formats for downloading and typically prices electronic versions of its books at or below that of paperback editions and makes a profit doing it 6 According to essays on Baen s science fiction e magazine Jim Baen s Universe also edited by Flint the strategy is if anything getting stronger and more fruitful with the passage of time especially with the advent of e book readers such as the Amazon Kindle and the Barnes amp Noble Nook citation needed Baen s Bar Edit Initially the company invested resources in Baen s Bar its online community service that provides a forum for customers authors and editors to interact beginning as a BBS In the early 2000s a blogger wrote Like every other publisher Jim Baen set up a website But several of his authors and fan friends convinced him to put a chat client on his site Since he was interested and since several of those authors like Jerry Pournelle a former columnist for Byte Magazine for instance were very Internet savvy he did The chat client grew into an incredibly vibrant community called Baen s Bar 6 On February 15 2021 American author Jason Sanford posted via Patreon Baen Books Forum Being Used to Advocate for Political Violence 8 Publisher Toni Weisskopf released a statement saying the Bar will remain closed pending an investigation 9 The site was reopened on April 9 2021 10 Baen s Webscriptions Edit In addition to selling individual titles in electronic format Baen has distributed serialized e book versions of new books at reduced prices in monthly bundles Originally called Webscriptions these Monthly Baen Bundles are scheduled three months in advance of print publication Webscription net was implemented by Baen s preferred website expert Arnold Bailey who also sold e books for other publishers At the start of 2012 the Webscription net website was redesigned renamed to Baen Ebooks and moved to baenebooks com Despite the new name Baen Ebooks continues to sell e books for other publishers notably science fiction genre rival Night Shade Books Baen s standard setup is based on monthly bundles Each month whichever books Baen has coming out in paper paperback or hardcover new or reissued are bundled put together in a fixed price currently 18 bundle regardless of the number of books historically 4 9 books average 5 6 The Monthly Baen Bundles are released in installments beginning three months prior to physical publication The first installment released three months prior to paper publication includes roughly a half of every book in the bundle with some books usually included in their entirety The second installment two months prior to print publication includes roughly three quarters and the third installment on the 16th of the month prior to official print release includes the full text The first two installments are generally available only as HTML while the last includes all formats supported Each bundle can only be bought until the 15th of the month prior to official print publication which is about the time the printed books reach retailers 11 Until December 2012 bundles remained on sale indefinitely Another avenue for distribution that Baen uses for some of its new titles is the offering of eARCs electronic advance reading copies 3 to 5 months prior to publication Marketed as a premium product for the fans who absolutely positively have to read it now they are priced at 15 per single title and can differ from the final text as they are electronic proofs After print publication the cleaned up and finalized electronic copy is available both online through the monthly bundle or as a single title priced variably 7 10 older titles are less 11 The electronic versions by Baen are produced in five common formats HTML Palm Pilot Mobipocket Kindle format Rocketbook EPUB Stanza Sony LRF RTF and MS Reader versions all unencrypted in drastic contrast to the rest of the e publishing industries strategy Jim Baen disliked Adobe s portable document format for reading purposes but Baen Ebooks offers some non Baen titles in that format When customers purchase a title from Baen they can read it online or download it in any format they want as often as they want Baen instituted a parallel practice of using promotional CD ROMs with permissive copyright licenses containing many of its stable of authors works Whether downloaded or by CD ROM the source material is available in all the formats Baen supports The great majority of books published by Baen are still available as e books long after the hardcover or paperback versions have gone out of print This is especially important for midlist titles which rarely get reprinted Until December 2012 it was also possible to purchase older monthly bundles Baen has made liberal use of free content in its marketing efforts For example free sample chapters of its books are typically available on the Baen Web site The Baen Free Library allows free access to dozens of titles from the company s backlist often the first book published in a series by a Baen author Baen also provides free electronic copies of its books to readers who are blind paralyzed dyslexic or are amputees Baen s emphasis on electronic publishing has generated press coverage for the company In 2001 Wired magazine described Webscriptions as innovative 12 Charles N Brown publisher of Locus magazine has praised Baen s approach in an interview in The New York Times saying Baen has shown that putting up electronic versions of books doesn t cost you sales It gains you a larger audience for all of your books As a result they ve done quite well 13 Magazine experiments Edit Baen s first run at magazine style book publishing took place in the late 1970s in the form of Destinies 14 a quarterly bookazine that featured fiction and non fiction by well known and new authors that Baen was promoting It was published by Ace where Baen was employed at the time Under the aegis of Baen Books in the 1980s he published two more bookazine series The first was Far Frontiers 15 The second was New Destinies 14 edited by Baen Elizabeth Mitchell and Michael A Banks The Grantville Gazettes Edit Main article The Grantville Gazettes Baen s began the experimental publication of The Grantville Gazette an e magazine anthology series specifically related to the popular Ring of Fire alternate history plenum The Gazettes are professionally edited and approved fan fiction They are published on a regular schedule and available individually at Baen Books or Amazon or by subscription 16 Jim Baen s Universe Edit Main article Jim Baen s Universe In the early 2000s Baen tried magazine like publishing again establishing two self sustaining e zine enterprises with a separate staff for each both spearheaded by Eric Flint Jim Baen s Universe 17 18 and the Grantville Gazette 16 series which was reconfigured after Grantville Gazette V The general audience speculative fiction anthology Baen s Universe is available only online At approximately 120 000 words this latter publication is unusually large when compared to most traditional print editions of science fiction magazines and the average size of the newly reconfigured Gazettes is similarly generous Baen Digital Object Identifiers DOI Edit From 1999 to 2011 Baen s e books were produced by Webscriptions under contract for Baen Books in various at least five common digital formats Because these multiple formats complicate the issue of identifying electronic versions Baen and Webscriptions did not use DOIs to identify their e books even though some of their books had DOIs The electronic e ARC practices also complicate things in publications dates since the first released text starts two to three months before the release of the print copy though the released text is not guaranteed to fully copy edited and so occasionally differs from the final released fully copy edited versions Thus like the Grantville Gazettes the e publication date antedates the print copy by about two months the interval before the release of the last third and the hardcover print edition is simultaneously released Authors and works EditAuthors Edit Authors whose works have been published by Baen include the following Andre Norton Andrew Dennis Ann Downer Brad R Torgersen C J Cherryh Catherine Asaro Charles Sheffield D J Butler Dave Freer David Drake David Weber Eric Flint Esther Friesner Harry Turtledove Holly Lisle James P Hogan Jerry Pournelle Jody Lynn Nye Joel Rosenberg John Ringo K D Wentworth L Sprague de Camp Larry Correia Larry Niven Lois McMaster Bujold Mark L Van Name Mercedes Lackey Michael Z Williamson P C Hodgell Paul Chafe Poul Anderson Robert A Heinlein Robert Asprin Robert Buettner S M Stirling Sarah A Hoyt Sharon Lee Spider Robinson Steve Miller Steve White Timothy Zahn Tom Kratman Travis S Taylor Virginia DeMarce Series Edit Series published by Baen include the following 1632 series Ring of Fire series Belisarius series The premise of this science fiction more specifically alternate history series is that a war between two competing societies in the future spills over to 6th century Earth Bolo Chicks in Chainmail A series of anthologies centered on this theme edited by Esther Friesner Freehold War Heroes in Hell Honorverse Honor Harrington Legacy of the Aldenata Liaden universe March Upcountry Series Raj Whitehall The Bard s Tale A series of books based on the RPG computer game series of the same name The Man Kzin Wars A shared universe based on the Kzinti Conflicts in Larry Niven s Known Space universe featuring writers personally selected by Niven Vorkosigan Saga War Between the Provinces Wing Commander Baen published seven Wing Commander novels from 1992 to 1999 starting with Freedom Flight by Mercedes Lackey and Ellen Guon and ending with False Colors by William R Forstchen and Andrew Keith including the novelizations of two of the games Wing Commander III Heart of the Tiger and Wing Commander IV The Price of Freedom References Edit Our Clients Simon amp Schuster Distribution Services www simonandschusterpublishing com Our Publishers JIM BAEN October 22 1943 June 28 2006 Archived February 28 2009 at the Wayback Machine Baen s obituary by David Drake david drake com Locus February 2005 Vol 54 No 2 pp 50 54 Locus February 2006 Vol 56 No 2 pp 50 53 a b c Boyes Walt Baen s Bar A Successful Community The Learning Fountain Archived from the original on September 30 2011 Retrieved November 30 2007 The Prime Palaver Sanford Jason February 15 2021 Baen Books Forum Being Used to Advocate for Political Violence Patreon patreon com Retrieved February 16 2021 Mike Glyer February 15 2021 Weisskopf Announces Hiatus for Baen s Bar File 770 file770 com Retrieved February 16 2021 Weisskopf Toni April 9 2021 What I Saw at the Bar 2021 Archived from the original on May 7 2021 Retrieved May 7 2021 a b Baen Print Newsletter baen com December 2012 Archived from the original on February 20 2014 Retrieved February 20 2014 Rose M j March 13 2001 Authors to Protest Amazon Wired Archived from the original on February 20 2014 Retrieved February 20 2014 O Connell Pamela Licalzi March 19 2001 Publisher s Web Books Spur Hardcover Sales The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Archived from the original on February 20 2014 Retrieved February 20 2014 a b Culture Destinies SFE Science Fiction Encyclopedia www sf encyclopedia com Retrieved August 1 2019 Culture Far Frontiers SFE Science Fiction Encyclopedia www sf encyclopedia com Retrieved August 1 2019 a b About Us The Grantville Gazette February 2019 Retrieved August 1 2019 Culture Jim Baen s Universe Science Fiction Encyclopedia Retrieved August 1 2019 Flint Eric May 20 2008 The Best of Jim Baen s Universe ISBN 978 1416555582 External links EditOfficial website Baen Books at isfdb org Baen Ebooks website Baen Free Library at Baen Ebooks Jim Baen s UNIVERSE Columns archives various columns Editors and otherwise no subscription needed Jim Baen s UNIVERSE the publisher s second foray into e zine publishing merged with Grantville Gazette Baen s Bar Online All e manuscript submissions for either of the above e zines have to go through this door into the two sub forums 1632 Slush or JBU Universe Slush conference Baen s Bar is the only submission mechanism for submitting stories to two professional SF magazines Baen s Grantville Gazettes First originally experimental e zine the gazette is unique in that it is canonical for the best selling 1632 series Editor s columns of JBU Salvos Against Big Brother and The Editor s Page Salvos are similar essays by editor Flint specifically focused on DRM and Baen s electronic publishing policies Free Baen materials for the disabled at www ReadAssist org Index of Baen on line resources Archived June 17 2013 at the Wayback Machine at www allensmith net Prime Palaver essays most discussing copy protection and Baen s e policies Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Baen Books amp oldid 1128301252, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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