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From Cory Caleb:
Just a comment and a (bunch of) support for you, Eric.
I first 'found' Baen as a publisher through David Weber's Honor Harrington books. And some of his other works, also published by Baen (first purchased at a local used-books store until I 'caught up' with the series around the time of Honor Among Enemies, and then purchased brand-new from Kepler's and Printers, Inc. And then I found your work through poking around on the web (living in Silicon Valley, I was one of the proverbial 'early adopters' of everything from web browsing in general through expensive hardware that was cheap ten months later!).
I think it was 1999 when I first purchased anything from the WebScriptions service. I had shelves and shelves of paper books, but - silly, foolish early adopter that I was and am - I had also purchased a Rocket eBook reader. I liked the device, though it certainly had flaws. Since that time, I've bought a great many books (and frequently WebScription months). Sure, I could probably track down bootleg copies but - why bother? I get quality for an eminently reasonable price, and I get to be fairly sure that the author's seeing at least a portion of what I've paid.
I have a job that requires I sit in front of a computer for hours on end, generally in the wee hours of the night and morning. When nothing is breaking - I'm just watching and waiting for things to break. Reading books in a web browser window is a great solution to keeping me alert. I can read a bit of something new from a new author. I can re-read a book I've enjoyed. I can see what happens next to my favorite group of characters. I can - and here, as a younger reader (I guess - I'm thirty-two) I really appreciate the work you and Jim Baen did - discover and re-discover works that were published well before I was born and had not been particularly aware of before.
I frequent Amazon and Borders and the local brick-and-mortar shops. I buy a fair number of books (while sci-fi, and specifically military sci-fi are my favorite
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