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Baen's Bar obituary notice for Jim Baen
Jun. 29th, 2006 01:17 pmJust found the official announcement on Baen's Bar:
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( offical announcement from Baen Books )
I didn't know him, and I've read few of the books he published. I still bitterly regret his loss. I've heard the stories, good and bad, and I know that he was a complex man; flawed as we all are, but generous also. He found and developed many new writers, including one of my very favourites -- and some people I know personally. He stood by his vision of open access ebooks, and saw them become a major income earner for his house while other publishers treated their readers as criminals and wondered why ebooks didn't sell as well as they'd hoped. Over on Making Light PNH says in a few sentences all you need to know about why his death is a blow to science fiction:
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( offical announcement from Baen Books )
I didn't know him, and I've read few of the books he published. I still bitterly regret his loss. I've heard the stories, good and bad, and I know that he was a complex man; flawed as we all are, but generous also. He found and developed many new writers, including one of my very favourites -- and some people I know personally. He stood by his vision of open access ebooks, and saw them become a major income earner for his house while other publishers treated their readers as criminals and wondered why ebooks didn't sell as well as they'd hoped. Over on Making Light PNH says in a few sentences all you need to know about why his death is a blow to science fiction:
"I didn’t know Jim at all well, and we had many differences of taste and outlook, but he was a publishing genius, radically correct about many of the things that matter. Trust your readers. Your audience is your most effective sales force. Publish what you love."
