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Originally Posted by pwalker8
For many of these mid-list authors, I'm just happy to have their books available. Price will sort itself out eventually.
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I certainly hope so. $19.99!!!!!
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
There are still a few favorite authors that I'm waiting for (Zelazny is the biggest name and of course the Harry Potter books), and a number of specific books, but things are definitely looking up.
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I think it depends on whom they were originally published by. I've noticed a distinct push by Random House to get their in-print-as-paperback backlists as e-books for entire series.
Among the ones I've noticed over the past few months are Sharyn McCrumb's
Elizabeth MacPherson mysteries which went from having 3 books available to the first 7 or so in a single month, and Barbara Hambly's
Benjamin January series, which used to have just the final four RH-published books (she's since been picked up by UK publisher Severn House for new volumes in the series), but now has all of the first 8, added in another monthly catch-up lump.
They even have authors as cult-niche obscure as Barry Hughart's (excellent and recommended)
Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox (
) in e-book format now, at least for the third book. And I bet that's how those
Robotech books you mentioned upthread got digitized. I have a few from the used bookstore, and their spines say they're a Del Rey imprint, which RH owns.
And it seems that DAW is starting to get in on the backlist-to-e act, at least for their more popular books. Tanya Huff's
Blood Books series (basis of the short-lived TV show which I hope Lifetime is kicking itself about not renewing, what with the popularity of
Twilight and
True Blood and such these days) is slated to come out in the next few months, according to the author's blog.
On the other hand, Tor and HarperCollins seem mildly lazy about e-publishing their older paperbacks, and look like they're giving a heavy push to the newer books instead. Though older books do seem to be slowly trickling through (at least from Tor; HC, not so much), like one or two more of Steven Brust's
Dragaera series and Morgan Llywelyn's Celtic historicals and a few Brian Stableford novels that I don't think were available before when last I checked.
But mostly, their catalogues seem to consist of far more gaps than near-complete series/available works. Of course, I could be wrong and maybe they'll speed up their rate of e-production Real Soon Now.