For those who haven't heard the news...

[seawasp]

... on Saturday, Baen Books will become available as eBooks on Amazon.com.

This will eliminate the questions/comments of "why can't I get your book on Kindle" and, hopefully, significantly increase sales!

Comments

[hms42]

I had not heard about this. I hope it does increase your sales.

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[pythor (from livejournal.com)]

That's great news! I love Baen books, and I love my Kindle.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

The problem is that UK kindle owners can't buy from Amazon.com, so I hope they are available on Amazon.co.uk as well. Of course you can already buy kindle compatible ebooks direct from Baen - which I have done from time to time.

My son is bringing me a cheap bottom-of-the-range kindle from the USA so I'll be able to buy direct from amazon.com with it because it's registered to his USian address.

[elainegrey.livejournal.com]

Just curious: will there be whatever standard Kindle DRM exists? Didn't see anything on the Baen site.

Whether or not there is DRM, i do hope the new market does wonders for you.

[muirecan.livejournal.com]

No Baen does not believe in DRM so the books will not be sold DRMed.

[elainegrey.livejournal.com]

I knew the eBooks had been DRM free for ages: i didn't know if Amazon & the Kindle forced DRM. Glad to hear Baen could stand their ground.

[seawasp]

No, Amazon doesn't care one way or the other. It's an individual publisher's choice as to whether to DRM their books or not.

[gary-jordan.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I'm "YAY!" yet or not. I've owned my Kindle and my Nook for about two weeks, and all my books pass through my Kindle PC space. I haven't successfully migrated my books in .EPUB format to the Nook, yet. For the Kindle, I downloaded in "Kindle" format (.PRC/.MOBI) and hooked up the USB cable and slid them over, no sweat.

On the DRM side, I don't know for sure but I think DRM is up to the Publisher.

I had no problem doing the same for my Fictionwise eBooks until yesterday, when Fictionwise pretty much went out of business. My books were supposed to transfer to Barnes & Noble, but so far...

[muirecan.livejournal.com]

Good, and I hope you get both boosted sales and enjoy the 25% increase in royalty that Baen is giving you. :)

[kimberlywade.livejournal.com]

Congrats! My books sell more on kindle than any other format.

[saladin-count0.livejournal.com]

well on the downside there goes the free library and the free cd´s on thefifthimperium.com :-(((((
have found many good books/authors there to buy in the real world of paperbooks

i hope baen sells enough books there to make it worth it

[seawasp]

The Free Library isn't going anywhere. Some books are off right now because in order to KEEP them on the Free Library, additional stuff has to be added to them for sale on Amazon, so they're different editions and thus don't trigger the 'bots to drop the Amazon price to zero.