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Originally Posted by ATDrake
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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I'll have to check this out - I have a lot of Marion Zimmer Bradley's books in paperback and hardback as I do like her writing. If I can replace some of these with eBook freebies, that would be really nice - my book shelves are groaning and it's time to start eliminating some of the books so things aren't quite so crowded! Also, thank you for the info about the change in US copyright/public domain laws. Kind of sucks for the "end-user" but hopefully it did some good for the authors and/or their estates.
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Originally Posted by ATDrake
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.
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Yup, I have the Kindle, haven't found any 25-30% off coupons for Kindle format books - I wonder why?
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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.  |
Great idea, but I am too old and I won't last that long
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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. 
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I have some of the books and "omnibuses" offered for the Kindle. There is a lot of duplication there, of course, for the "free" eBooks since only a limited number of Norton's works made it into the public domain. I'll read what I have first before buying any more - need to find out if I actually like her writing or if it really is all about nostalgia.
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