Baen Books, which is a professional SF publisher, inserts into books CDs with texts of novels that they are still selling. The CDs are given away for free, with permission to all to copy and redistribute. They view the electronic textfiles as selling tools, because enough people will want the real books to read that it is profitable to give away the contents for free. For examples www.baen.com. For the Editor’s explanation of why this is profitable see bar.baen.com, though you may have to wait for the topic to resurface. Electronic Publishing Pros and Cons Electronic Publishing? Thoughts and Ideas. More On Electronic Publishing More Thoughts and Ideas. Furthermore On Electronic Publishing Further Thoughts and Ideas A Contrasting Opinion on Web Publication Baen Books. Back to Table of Contents -- Game! #1 To Game! List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2004 by George Phillies. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com