Baen in a sentence

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.

Jim Baen disliked Adobe's portable document format (PDF) for reading purposes, but Baen Ebooks offers some non-Baen titles in that format.

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.

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.

After being rejected by four publishers, The Warrior's Apprentice was accepted by Baen Books, who agreed to a three-book deal to include the two other novels.

Baen also provides free electronic copies of its books to readers who are blind, paralyzed, dyslexic, or are amputees.

Baen and his successors believe that DRM does more harm than good to a publisher.

Baen has made liberal use of free content in its marketing efforts.

Baen instituted a parallel practice of using promotional CD-ROMs with permissive copyright licenses containing many of its stable of authors works.

Baen's Bar is the only submission mechanism for submitting stories to two professional SF magazines.

Baen's emphasis on electronic publishing has generated press coverage for the company.

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).

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 a number of books (historically 4–9 books, average 5–6).

For example, free sample chapters of its books are typically available on the Baen Web site.

In 2005, Baen moved up to the eighth position in the total books published with 72 books published (of which 40 were original titles).

In the early 2000s, a blogger wrote: "Like every other publisher, Baen set up a website.

It was published by Ace, where Baen was employed at the time.

Originally called Webscriptions, these Monthly Baen Bundles are scheduled three months in advance of print publication.

The 1995 edition included both endings, Jim Baen 's own postlude to the story, and twenty-five of the essays.

The discussions on Baen's bar convinced him to do so.