Unlike most e-book suppliers, it does not use digital rights management (i.e., copy protection).
It was owned and operated by Webwrights, a Tennessee company run by Arnold Bailey.
In the strictest sense, Webscriptions really referred to a subscription service through which customers got four–six Baen books per month as e-ARC (digital Advanced Readers Copy) releases.
While the books are only partially available ("Advanced Readers Copy"), the only download format is HTML.
One of the other publishers using Baen Ebooks, Night Shade Books, also sells a monthly bundle.
[3] Baen Ebooks, like its predecessor, does not use DRM (i.e., copy protection), in accordance with Jim Baen's belief that DRM "just made it hard for people to read books, the worst mistake a publisher could make.
"[4] Eric Flint, writing soon after Baen's death in 2006, noted that "in his fight against DRM, Jim stood alone as a publisher" and argued that Baen Book's success "demonstrated in practice that all the propaganda [in favor of] DRM is, in addition to everything else, so much hogwash even on the practical level of a publishing house's profits and losses.
As Wired noted, the Free Library has "no conditions or strings attached ... not even requiring readers to give their e-mail addresses, which must have the marketing department turning green around the gills.
"[6] Baen also include with some hardcovers CD-ROMs carrying dozens of the author's earlier books in multiple formats, all DRM-free.