Free Access
Jim Baen believed in the promotional power of library access to books. In the very early days of the Web, he started releasing free e-book copies of many of the books in the company's back list at a website called the Baen Free Library.
Additionally, sample CDs of e-books are bound into many Baen first edition hardcover books. Although the books on these CDs are often not included in the Baen Free Library, the publisher allows fan sites to put these CDs up on the web. The e-book version of the book version (thus containing each "extra" Flint novella) of the first five Grantville Gazettes, along with most of the novels in the series are on CD#23 available on The Fifth Imperium.
Read more about this topic: The Grantville Gazettes
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