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OK, here's another question.
Why, why, why would a publisher make ebooks available for some of the titles in a series (trilogy or tetralogy) and not all of them?
One of my favourite works is John Crowley's Aegypt/Solitudes tetralogy. You can buy volumes 1, 2 and 4 in ebook format from the Kindle store on Amazon.com, but volume 3 (Daemonomania) is unavailable except in hard-copy format.
Or take Pat Barker's Regeneration series. You can buy volumes 1 and 2 in ebook format, no problem, but not the third and final volume (The Ghost Road).
I cannot understand the logic here. As a reader, I either want all the books in the series, or none at all. (My guess is that I'm typical of anyone who makes it past the first volume and wants to continue reading.) So: does Crowley's publisher actually imagine that when the reader gets to the end of volume 2, s/he'll either dash out and buy the DTB version, or just shrug and say "I guess I don't really need to know what happened next" and proceed directly to volume 4?
Although I dislike geographic restrictions, I do understand the principle of them. I don't get this at all.
P.S. The same gaps in availability exist for the ePub versions as well, e.g. I searched the B&N site for Crowley's tetralogy and discovered that it's exactly the same there.
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