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Baen Podcast Available

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The new Baen Free Radio Hour, a weekly podcast, offers listeners the initial chapters of David Weber’s Shadow of Freedom in audiobook form as part of a special agreement with Audible.com. It will be serialized with one new chapter each week.

Baen’s podcast will draw content from Baen authors and other top names. There will also be news features, discussions, writing and reading suggestions, plus fiction and drama based on the works of Baen authors. The podcast posts new installments weekly on Friday at noon.

“We’re absolutely convinced that serializing Shadow of Freedom will draw listeners to the complete audiobook available on Audible.com, and to David Weber’s great Honor Harrington series available in print and ebook form,” says Baen Publisher Toni Weisskopf. “The podcast itself is a showcase of all things Baen, and revolves around our authors, their books, and the interests of our wonderful reading community. And with audiobook serials and audio dramas, the podcast is packed with both information and entertainment for listeners.”

Next — Baen Ebooks Via Baker & Taylor

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[From the press release] Ebook pioneer Baen Books is making its ebooks available for purchase through distributor Baker & Taylor for the first time beginning March 14, 2013. Science fiction and fantasy publisher Baen Books has sold its own ebooks for over thirteen years at Baen’s retail site, Baenebooks.com, where ebooks have always been downloadable totally free of digital rights restrictions. The move to third party distribution is relatively new territory for Baen, which has built a name for itself in the ebook arena with innovative an e-Advanced Reading Copy program and limited time monthly discount bundles. These programs will continue, according to Toni Weisskopf, Baen Publisher.

“We are excited for the chance to take advantage of Baker and Taylor’s unique market reach and have our ebooks distributed by their distinctive channels. Now it will be easier than ever to download your favorite Weber, Ringo, or Correia ebook to your ebook reader,” says Weisskopf. “The DRM-free model will not change, and you can be sure we will always maintain our famous ebook pioneering spirit and customer-first orientation.”

Baen is known for its New York Times bestselling science fiction and fantasy, including David Weber’s Honor Harrington series, Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire alternate histories, and Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter International urban fantasies. Baen’s paper titles are distributed by Simon & Schuster.

Baen Catalog Available on Apple iBookstore

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Baen Books are now available for purchase from Apple’s iBookstore.

Until recently, the publisher’s ebooks could be purchased only at Baenebooks.com. Then in December, Baen began offering ebooks through the Amazon Kindle store.

Whether purchased directly from Baen, or Amazon and Apple, the ebooks come DRM-free.

Baen’s best-known sf and fantasy lines include David Weber’s Honor Harrington series, Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire alternate histories, Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter International urban fantasies, and Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga.

“Now that we’ve made our books available on the iBookstore, it will be easier than ever for fans to read their favorite Weber, Ringo, or Correia book on their iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, says Toni Weisskopf, Publisher. “We see this as a promising expansion of our famous pioneering digital spirit and customer-first orientation.”

The full press release follows the jump.

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Baen To Kindle More Sales?

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Baen, a pioneer in ebook marketing, is about to relent and begin selling ebooks outside their own store – presumably through Amazon, predicts Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader.

Some of the early clues, says Hoffelder, were the shrinking Baen Free Library, and a request made to one webmaster to stop offering files of Baen books once given away free in CD format because of an imminent “new ebook distribution deal with an ‘unnamed third-party’.”

[Via Andrew Porter and Paul Di Filippo.]

Earn Free Ebooks at Planet Baen

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Will you join the rush on Planet Baen when it opens for settlement on June 15?

Planet Baen is a web-based game, integrated with Facebook, which permits players to earn free ebooks by playing. The player chooses the political and economic orientation of the settlement and then attempts to develop the colony, while earning free ebook coupons in the process.

Here is a list of game activities from their website:

Planet Baen Things You Can Do

Shop for assets.
Surge your assets for bonus points. (Click an asset on the Assets-page grid to see Surge and other options.)
Redeem your gifts.
Send gifts to other players.
Adjust your political, economic, and moral outlook.
Check out ebook links and adjust your wishlist queue.
Upgrade individual assets to your current tech level.
Sell off less productive assets.
Complete projects to make high-level assets and qualify to level-up your freehold.

The full press release follows the jump.

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Baen No Longer Alone

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In light of Tor Books’ announcement that it is getting rid of digital rights management (DRM) in July, the folks at Baen Books have followed-up by announcing their entire line of ebooks will also be DRM-free – just exactly as it has been ever since the late 1990s. 

Baen publisher Toni Weisskopf commented:

We expect this strategy to be a winning formula for Tor as it has been for more than a decade for Baen. We heartily welcome Tor/Forge to the DRM-free fold.

Baen Books founder Jim Baen, who died in 2006, was known to be a passionate advocate of ebooks without DRM, according to Baen editor Tony Daniel: 

We have mugs and hats from years ago still around the office with our on-going ebook slogan written on them: “Alone in the Fight Against Encryption.”

Baen Books currently offers well 1,500 DRM-free titles at Baenebooks.com, and almost every title is available in all current file formats and many legacy formats as well, including Mobi, Kindle, Palm, EPUB, Nook, Stanza, Sony LRF, Rocketbook , RTF, MS Reader, and HTML Online versions.

The full press release follows the jump.

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Baen Launches Redesigned Website

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Baen Books has spiffed up its website — www.baen.com – and reloaded it with free fiction and other features aimed at people who work with YA readers.

“Space Hero” by Patrick Lundrigan is the first free story, winner of the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Contest, co-sponsored by Baen Books.

Free tools for teachers, librarians and book groups also are available, to help them use Baen fiction to reach YA readers. There are author interviews, all-new teacher’s study guides and reading group discussion question topics. The first of these offerings is a guide to Robert A. Heinlein’s The Rolling Stones, written by Felecia McDuffie, PhD.

The full press release follows the jump.

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Van Name to Donate Hardback Income

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Mark Van Name will be giving 100% of his proceeds from hardcover sales of Children No More (Baen) to Falling Whistles, a charity that helps rehabilitate and reintegrate child soldiers in the Congo. The novel’s official release date is August 3.

For more information about this promise, visit www.childrennomore.com. To learn more about the subject of child soldiers and Falling Whistles’ work, visit http://fallingwhistles.com.

The full press release follows the jump.

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Lundrigan Wins Baen Writing Contest

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Patrick Lundrigan of New Jersey has won the 2010 Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest with his entry “Space Hero.” 

The result was announced on May 11, but had largely gone unnoticed til Baen copied the press release to news bloggers this week.

First runner-up was “Citizen-Astronaut” by David Levine of Portland, Oregon and second runner up was “High Ground” by Australian writer Stuart Gibbon.

The full press release follows the jump.

[Thanks to Laura Haywood-Cory for the story.]

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