Daiv

Daiv asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

Hi. Before Captain Vorpatrils Alliance was published, it was released and sold as an e-arc. I gathered at the time that was a bit of an experiment. Did that work out for you? Is that some thing you would consider doing with future releases? Assuming you have a say in such things, of course. I, for one, will buy anything you care to publish. Thank you. -Daiv

Lois McMaster Bujold
The e-ARCS are a Baen Thing. They do it for selected lead books, according to some calculation of their own.

The e-ARCS have worked out just fine for me, so far. One of the fringe benefits, I have found, is that we get several hundred free proofreaders, to catch all those little glitches that have escaped the editorial net so far (and there are always some.) One must filter out the things identified as mistakes which aren't, of course, and there is inevitable duplication, but on the whole I have found this beneficial.

Ta, L.

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