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Originally Posted by OakIris
I just wish there were more of her books available as eBooks - I certainly expected more to be in the public domain, but then she only died in 2005 and her estate wasn't settled until last year.
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The only reason why some of her stuff is in the public domain to begin with is because of the US' slightly weird public domain rules, which used to put works that didn't have their copyright renewed into PD after 28 years, among other oddities, until Disney interefered with their various extension schemes and the US has the current Life+70 (or rather, does-not-interfere-with-Disney's-ownership-of-"Steamboat Willie") situation.
Apparently this happened to a fair chunk of earlier sf/fantasy authors like Marion Zimmer Bradley (whose estate *has* been putting up her stuff DRM-free and MultiFormat over at Fictionwise, if you want to give it a go), which is why they've got PG entries.
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Originally Posted by OakIris
Maybe more will find their way into the eBook world before too long.
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Anyway, I just went to Kobo to see what Nortons they had, and there were an additional 22 titles from Tor and Grand Central Publishing once I deducted the PG public domain freebies.
A lot of them were Witch World (at least one title was an omnibus collection with 3+ books), which is what I believe you were looking for most?
If you look in the Deals, Freebies, and Resources forum here, there are currently two single-use Kobo coupons for 25-30% off. Since you're in the US, they probably won't work with the Tor books, since they're owned by one of those price-fixing Agency 5 publishers which don't allow discounting and I've heard that coupons can't apply for US customers on those, but you might be able to save on the Grand Central ones, maybe.
And Kobo often has discount coupons, usually for $1 off at a time on eligible books. So if you're looking to build your Norton collection, it looks like you can do it a little cheaper now, though I just noticed you have a Kindle so you'd have to deal with either limiting yourself to reading them on a computer/phone app, or learning to liberate your purchases and thus it may not be worth a relatively minor pricedrop.
Alternatively, you can come up here to Canada and wait 45 years, after which under our Life+50 rules, all of Andre Norton's non-collab works will be public domain.
Provided our government doesn't change things in the meantime, that is.
ETA: Just realized you probably already bought all the Kindle versions of those Tor/GCP books before even coming to MR to ask about more.
Well, at least you now know whom probably to write about releasing the rest of the Witch World works.