A press release from Laura Haywood-Cory of Baen Books:

Ebook pioneer Baen Books is making its ebooks available for purchase through Reader Store from Sony for the first time beginning August 9, 2013. Science fiction and fantasy publisher Baen Books has sold its own ebooks for over thirteen years at Baen’s retail site, Baenebooks.com, where ebooks have always been downloadable totally free of digital rights restrictions.  The move to third-party distribution is relatively new territory for Baen, which has built a name for itself in the ebook arena with an innovative e-Advanced Reading Copy program and limited time monthly discount bundles.  These programs will continue, according to Toni Weisskopf, Baen Publisher.

“We are excited for the chance to work with Sony.  Now it will be easier than ever to download your favorite Weber, Ringo, or Correia ebook to your ebook reader,” says Weisskopf. “The DRM-free model will not change, and you can be sure we will always maintain our famous ebook pioneering spirit and customer-first orientation.”

Baen is known for its New York Times bestselling science fiction and fantasy, including David Weber’s Honor Harrington series, Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire alternate histories, and Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter International urban fantasies. Baen’s paper titles are distributed by Simon & Schuster.

Reader Store helps book lovers discover their next story, from sweep-you-off-your feet romances to hard-boiled blockbusters, on Reader from Sony, or compatible PC, Mac, iOS and Android devices. Read anywhere at any time with thousands of eBooks and periodicals. For more information please visit readerstore.sony.com.