What I enjoy most in being a registered user, is the ability to pose a question on a subject that I have interest in, or am needing education on.
I'm sure it will mostly end up as a "that's just the way it works" or "it's what they want to do" answer, but I would like a few questions answered. Baen believes and allow E-ARCs, yes, it does benefit us, but they are also benefiting from it (financially) or that policy would not exist. I'd kind of like an explanation of the whole e-arc thing, and the reasoning behind it. Or how (or why) it works.
After that comes a question that will surely be an "it's the way they want it" answer, but I would think that other publisher's (insert Tor here) should be able to see the advantages of instituting e-arcs, especially when they can look at one of their better author's, who also writes
for baen and, is apparently NOT disadvantaged by the sale of his books as e-arcs.
I read somewhere in these forums that a LOT of people jump on an e-arc, yet will also buy the papered version, effectively buying the same book twice. Sounds like a good thing for baen (or Tor) to me. And there are probably other reasons that baen has an e-arc policy. I would think that they (Tor) would at least dip their toes in the water and at least TRY it with just ONE book for goodness sakes. And, they could try it with an author of theirs (RFC) that looks at e-arcs (and snippets) as a good thing.
BTW apparently Tor doesn't seem to have an issue with the MWW releasing snippets for their book, so you would think that an e-arc, which is sort of like an expanded version of a snippet, might also be a good idea, and, hey look! We can charge for providing it too!
So, that's enough for now. Can anyone enlighten me, and expand my knowledge base?
