{"id":1656,"date":"2010-03-13T16:16:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T20:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2010-03-13T16:16:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T20:16:58","slug":"interview-toni-weisskopf-publisher-of-baen-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/e-commerce\/interview-toni-weisskopf-publisher-of-baen-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Toni Weisskopf, publisher of Baen Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teleread.org\/2010\/03\/11\/interview-toni-weisskopf-publisher-of-baen-books\/\">Teleread has a very good interview with Toni Weisskopf<\/a>, the publisher of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baen.com\/\">Baen Books<\/a>. \u00a0Now, as those of you who have followed my ramblings for a while know, I&#8217;m a fan of Baen and their policies on <a href=\"http:\/\/urbintechnology.com\/2008\/08\/16\/previous-thought-on-etext\/\">e-books<\/a>. \u00a0 Go read the whole article, but here are some of the &#8220;money quotes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TW: Well, part of the \u201csecret\u201d there is that we don\u2019t pay for expensive DRM (\u201cdigital rights management\u201d) schemes. I\u2019ve never understood why we should add to our costs with the sole outcome that it\u2019s harder for readers to buy and read the books we want to sell. On the contrary, I want to make it as easy as possible for my readers to find, purchase and read my books. That goal influences every publishing decision I make from our marketing to what typefaces we use.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nSpecifically, I think ebooks will extend the market for books, not reduce it. But then what I am selling is good stories; I don\u2019t care what medium I sell those stories in. If my readers tell me they want it chipped on stone, I will find some way to do that. If they want me to beam the story directly to a chip in the brain, I will do that.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIn a nutshell, the problem of the midlist author or publisher is not piracy, but lack of exposure.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe other side of the coin is that Jim Baen didn\u2019t believe our readers are thieves and neither do I. I believe they will buy the book when they have the money. And I don\u2019t believe our readers are ignorant. The understand TANSTAAFL. Our readers understand that we can\u2019t continue to find great books and the authors continue to write them if we don\u2019t get paid. So we don\u2019t treat our readers badly by trying to micromanage the use of the ebooks, and we have been amply rewarded for that trust.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teleread has a very good interview with Toni Weisskopf, the publisher of Baen Books. \u00a0Now, as those of you who have followed my ramblings for a while know, I&#8217;m a fan of Baen and their policies on e-books. \u00a0 Go read the whole article, but here are some of the &#8220;money quotes.&#8221; TW: Well, part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,5],"tags":[137,286],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baen-books","category-e-commerce","tag-baen-books","tag-e-book"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-qI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}