E Arcs Have Happened

For those of you who aren’t old Baen fans (or fans of Baen for a long time) I suppose I should explain what e-arcs are.

So in the days when the mammoths roamed the Earth — 30 years ago or so — the main mode of publicizing an upcoming work was the ARC, aka the Advanced Reading copy. whenever a publishing house had a hot — or lukewarm, or cold. The difference was in the number of ARCs printed — book to push, they would print a bunch of these.

They were distinguished by having cardboard ...