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Baen Books reports that it’s making its entire offering of ebooks at the Webscriptions site available to astronauts stationed on the International Space Station, free of charge. According to Baen publisher Toni Weisskopf, recently released NASA documents showed that ISS crewmembers were already big fans of several authors published by the science-fiction imprint, including Lois McMaster Bujold, David Weber and John Ringo, so she offered the agency a free pass to Webscriptions, and got a prompt acceptance.

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