Many of the books are the first or second book in a series and Baen is hoping to get you hooked on the series so you'll buy the later books. And you probably will be. But at least you'll get the first book or two free. That's a win-win situation in my mind.
The books span different sub-genres of science fiction as well as some fantasy novels. There are a few alternate history books, some military science fiction, some time travel tales, and a variety of types of fantasy. Some of the books include 1632 by Eric Flint, On Basilisk Station and The Honor of the Queen by David Weber, Retief! by Keith Laumer, The Lark and the Wren by Mercedes Lackey, and March Upcountry by John Ringo.
The books are available in Palm DOC as well as Microsoft Reader (.lit) format, HTML, and RTF format. Unfortunately they use the MobiPocket Reader markup within their DOC files so if you read them on an ordinary DOC reader you'll have to wade through lots of markup. If you don't want to use MobiPocket Reader and the markup really bothers you, you can probably use a DOC converter to convert to text, use a tag removal application, then convert it back.
The site is organized to let you view all books at once (alphabetically), to view all books by an author, and to view all books in a series. You can also check out a list of new books, although it doesn't have links to the download pages, just a list of titles. The books themselves are organized on author pages so whenever you click on a book title for more information you'll find yourself on the author page. You'll need to select the format individually for each book - there's no way to select a personal default format - so downloading several books at once can be a slow process.
I'm not complaining too loudly. Free is free is free. If the download process isn't quite as convenient as it could be, so be it. I'm just happy to have another source of quality free science fiction and fantasy eBooks for my Palm.
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