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I think this entry is now redundant and should be removed in favor of/redirected to Baen Books. There's not really enough to merit a separate Webscriptions writeup when Webscriptions is considered as a part of Baen's overall ebook history/philosophy.
-- Robotech_Master 18:56, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Although Webscriptions only sells Baen Books (with minor exceptions, so far), it is wholly owned and operated by Arnold Bailey of Webwrights; monies taken in by Webscriptions are portioned out in some small payment to authors and to Jim Baen (his cut), but are handled by Webwrights. Baen doesn't own Webscriptions nor do they own the website. I'd leave the entry, but I'd edit it to reflect these facts.
-- Editrx 05:30, 14 February 2006 (UTC) (former production manager, Baen Books)
This not an advertisement. It is a description of an interesting site, one of the pioneers of Ebooks. Please submit it to AfD if you insist on deleting this, but speedying it seems like ultra deletionist bad faith.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 04:07, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone know why Tor Books and DAW are mentioned as participants in Webscriptions, while in fact they are not???
This "fact" has been added by User:Fabartus in his edit of 11 December 2007. Nolaviz ( talk) 20:02, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
This article seriously needs decent references. That's documents / links talking substantively about the website that aren't from the company, closely connected companies or their stable of authors. Stuartyeates ( talk) 08:13, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
In January 2012, Baen replaced webscription.net with Baen Ebooks. Here's a copy of the email they sent to Webscription.net customers, dated 5-Jan-2012:
Despite the name change, they still sell non-Baen books.
I've moved this article from "Webscriptions" to "Baen Ebooks", and started updating it. I also took out some poorly-sourced stuff, dead links etc. More work is needed, but it's after 3am here and I need to go to bed. Still to fix: NYT/Wired refs, list of publishers. Further edits welcome. Cheers, CWC 17:22, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
I went through the list of publishers at www.BaenEbooks.com, counting the titles (not bundles, not e-ARCs) on sale from each publisher. (Note that none of Tor's titles are currently for sale, except the e-ARC As of 7-Jan-2012, the Baen Ebooks website lists the following publishers:
Publisher | # titles |
Ace Books | 1 (by Robert Heinlein) |
Baen Books | lots |
Bantam Spectra | 1 (by Charles Sheffield) |
Del Rey Books | 2 (by Robert Heinlein) |
E-Reads | lots |
Ford Street Publishing ( Paul Collins) | 11 |
Gallery | 1 (by Robert Heinlein) |
Night Shade Books | lots |
Schlock Mercenary | 4 (the first 4 Schlock Mercenary books as high-res PDFs) |
SRM Publisher | 2 ( Liaden universe collections) |
Tor Books | 0 |
Yard Dog Press (Selina Rosen) | 4 |
So I've changed the list of publishers in the article to Baen, E-Reads, Ford Street, Night Shade, Schlock Mercenary, and Yard Dog Press.
Note: while BaenEBooks.com lists several Tor titles, only 2 e-ARCs of David Drake books are currently on sale. In my edits last night, I removed some poorly-sourced speculation dating back to 2006 that Tor would go back to using Webscriptions. At present, there is no sign that Tor will ever resume selling DRM-free e-books. Tor's editors and management are notably savvy, but their corporate masters seem much less cluey. (Bah, says I. In fact: BAH!) CWC 07:23, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
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I think this entry is now redundant and should be removed in favor of/redirected to Baen Books. There's not really enough to merit a separate Webscriptions writeup when Webscriptions is considered as a part of Baen's overall ebook history/philosophy.
-- Robotech_Master 18:56, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Although Webscriptions only sells Baen Books (with minor exceptions, so far), it is wholly owned and operated by Arnold Bailey of Webwrights; monies taken in by Webscriptions are portioned out in some small payment to authors and to Jim Baen (his cut), but are handled by Webwrights. Baen doesn't own Webscriptions nor do they own the website. I'd leave the entry, but I'd edit it to reflect these facts.
-- Editrx 05:30, 14 February 2006 (UTC) (former production manager, Baen Books)
This not an advertisement. It is a description of an interesting site, one of the pioneers of Ebooks. Please submit it to AfD if you insist on deleting this, but speedying it seems like ultra deletionist bad faith.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 04:07, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone know why Tor Books and DAW are mentioned as participants in Webscriptions, while in fact they are not???
This "fact" has been added by User:Fabartus in his edit of 11 December 2007. Nolaviz ( talk) 20:02, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
This article seriously needs decent references. That's documents / links talking substantively about the website that aren't from the company, closely connected companies or their stable of authors. Stuartyeates ( talk) 08:13, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
In January 2012, Baen replaced webscription.net with Baen Ebooks. Here's a copy of the email they sent to Webscription.net customers, dated 5-Jan-2012:
Despite the name change, they still sell non-Baen books.
I've moved this article from "Webscriptions" to "Baen Ebooks", and started updating it. I also took out some poorly-sourced stuff, dead links etc. More work is needed, but it's after 3am here and I need to go to bed. Still to fix: NYT/Wired refs, list of publishers. Further edits welcome. Cheers, CWC 17:22, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
I went through the list of publishers at www.BaenEbooks.com, counting the titles (not bundles, not e-ARCs) on sale from each publisher. (Note that none of Tor's titles are currently for sale, except the e-ARC As of 7-Jan-2012, the Baen Ebooks website lists the following publishers:
Publisher | # titles |
Ace Books | 1 (by Robert Heinlein) |
Baen Books | lots |
Bantam Spectra | 1 (by Charles Sheffield) |
Del Rey Books | 2 (by Robert Heinlein) |
E-Reads | lots |
Ford Street Publishing ( Paul Collins) | 11 |
Gallery | 1 (by Robert Heinlein) |
Night Shade Books | lots |
Schlock Mercenary | 4 (the first 4 Schlock Mercenary books as high-res PDFs) |
SRM Publisher | 2 ( Liaden universe collections) |
Tor Books | 0 |
Yard Dog Press (Selina Rosen) | 4 |
So I've changed the list of publishers in the article to Baen, E-Reads, Ford Street, Night Shade, Schlock Mercenary, and Yard Dog Press.
Note: while BaenEBooks.com lists several Tor titles, only 2 e-ARCs of David Drake books are currently on sale. In my edits last night, I removed some poorly-sourced speculation dating back to 2006 that Tor would go back to using Webscriptions. At present, there is no sign that Tor will ever resume selling DRM-free e-books. Tor's editors and management are notably savvy, but their corporate masters seem much less cluey. (Bah, says I. In fact: BAH!) CWC 07:23, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
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