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I've been part of the webscription program since it started about two to three years ago. So I've amassed quite a collection already of the various months they sell. While the CDs are nice to download, they still don't contain the entire catalog and most of the time the contents are redundant. Lately though due to the increasing lowering value of the peso, I've found myself limited to just buying a single book here and there from their release.

 

I've been resorting to e-donkey/overnet and even kazaalite and yet still I can't find some of the baen books available for download. Would you happen to know if there is a good copy of The Reaches by David Drake available for download via P2P?

Nope, haven't seen The Reaches by David Drake in e-book form thru P2P yet. But if I do, I'll download it and inform you....also sent you a PM

Hahaha!

 

Well, that's an idea.

 

Let's see who else posts in this thread and we'll go from there.

 

Hehehe....

I agree with you guys on a new thread just for Baen books. I am sure that they are a lot of other like-minded people. You can count me in.....

Actually no, I'm not under the webscriptions plan of Baen. I downloaded all my stuff thru the Donkey P2P network, even the CD-ROMs (someone was so nice to post the whole CD image). Have Baen CD-ROM Vol.1 (Honorverse-David Weber), Vol.2 (Legacy of the Aldenata-John Ringo), and Vol.3 (Hammer's Slammers-David Drake). Each CD has a full compilation of each author's works, along with some others as a bonus. I find really interesting especially for David Weber's books in the Honor Harrington series and David Drake's Hammer's Slammers, beats the hell out of buying all the books on-by-one.

The downside here is that you're not updated with Baen's latest releases, you have to wait for someone to post the file for download, so for the newer titles, you have to wait a while (1-2 months).

Hehehe, you forgot to include Eric Flint in your star studded cast of Sci-Fi writers from the Baen stable. His collaborations with David Drake and David Weber have been excellent.

 

Best Sci-Fi Series: Battletech

Best Sci-Fi Author: Mike Stackpole

Best Military Sci-Fi Author: David Drake

Best Sci-Fi Publisher: www.baen.com (check out their free downloadable library at www.baen.com/library)

I agree with you wholeheartedly on David Drake being the Best Military Sci-Fi Author, though I think that John Ringo's works (A Hymm Before Battle, Gust Front, Hell's Faire, etc.) are up there with David Drake's Hammer's Slammer Series.

By the way if you don't mind reading books in the e-book format, you can get practically a lot of them through P2P networks. Have already downloaded a lot. I read using my palmpilot as I find it very convenient to have a lot of books uploaded in my palmpilot, less bulk, and always ready anytime....

Baen Publishing even came out with special CD-ROMs for David Drake and David Weber, wherein all their works are compiled in one CD-ROM in different e-book formats (HTML, Palm OS, MS Word, etc.)

For Science Fiction, I like David Drake, especially his Hammer's Slammers series.

Other good Science Fiction authors are John Ringo, Jerry Pournelle, David Weber and S.M. Stirling.

You're right about the over-priced coffee in Starbucks. Did you know that the overall supply of coffee in the world market far exceeds demand? This SHOULD result in cheaper coffee to consumers like you and me but it does not due to vested interests of certain market players.

Did you also know that the biggest coffee producer in the world is Vietnam? This came about when Vietnam opened up and decided to upgrade its agricultural sector by migrating from relatively low-value crops like rice to higher-value cash crops like coffee. But the funny thing is that Vietnam-made coffee has not penetrated much into the overall market due to concerns over quality voiced by other major coffee producing countries in South America and Africa, which also happen to be Vietnam's main competitors....

Another little-known fact: Out of every dollar that is spent in coffee as the finished product, less than 10 cents goes to the coffee farmers, which mostly reside in third world countries. The rest of the money goes to middle-men, importers, and retailers like Starbucks.

So you can imagine the profit margins of coffee shops like Starbucks.....

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