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"Acrimonious Departures"?

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I've removed the following sentences:

However, Lackey, Moon and other authors have since acrimoniously left his company, citing complaints such as delayed payments and unprofessional treatment. Others of the forenamed authors vociferously dispute this version of events.

which were added in November 2005 by user 24.34.21.215 (talk · contribs). At least one of these assertions is obviously false; all of them controvene our (revised) WP:BLP policy because they are completely unsourced.

It is true that some successful Baen authors have moved to other publishers, but that is because they can get much bigger advances from other publishers. (Book publishers offer authors up-front payments, called advances, representing their royalties from a certain number of sales, then only pay further royalties if sales exceed that number. These days, successful authors tend to get advances corresponding to impossibly large numbers of sales, but no royalties after that. Baen Books offers small advances, but does pay sale-based royalties.) I don't have a citation for this; would anyone who does please add it to the article?

Cheers, CWC(talk) 16:17, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

On the above allegation

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I tagged an equivilent allegation on Baen's Books at least a week back with {{fact}} and none has been forthcoming. Further, as of a few minutes ago, this is a current list of the Baen Author's... which still includes the alledged disaffected M. Lackey, et al. The simplest explanation is as given above, or one similar to it—to wit, an author can only place so many titles with a given publisher in a given time frame, and being human and not tied to any illegal exclusivity contract, they shop a property around. Publisher 'B' seeing the authors success on the other label, adds a sweetener or just buys it first... no matter. The property is sold. Eric Flint for example never had a bad day with Baen, but still sold two River of War novels to the bigger house TOR. The third is being brought out by Baen, and so it goes.

Current list snipped from webscriptions.net authors sidebar tonight. Note there are deceased authors on the list, reflecting Baen's policy of republishing good writers out of print. (Aside: If the above is NOT showing as four columns on your browser, please let me know about it ASAP! The technique may be an CSS extension not supported on all browsers, but we're not sure. Thanks!) // FrankB 07:11, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Coming across as one long list to me, not 4 columns. PeregrineV (talk) 06:29, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dedication from Heinlein

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Would the following fit in any where?

Robert Heinlein in part dedicated his 1985 novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls to Baen.[1]

I'm new at this so if somebody wants to stick it in an appropriate place, please do so.

JustJimWillDo (talk) 07:46, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I put this (slightly modified) in the Magazine Editor section JustJimWillDo (talk) 06:36, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Please use the direct Robert A. Heinlein link. It was the byline he used. Hu (talk) 01:44, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Heinlein, Robert A (1986). The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. New England Library. ISBN 0-450-39315-1.

Pronunciation

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The name Baen is pronounced like bane.

"popular culture"

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in Juggler of Worlds, there is a James P. Baen hyperwave station on Jinx. (page 93 of the paperback).(mercurywoodrose)76.254.35.113 (talk) 00:08, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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