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I got frustrated by the spelling, so I gave up. I'm lazy that way.
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I read and enjoyed the Belgariad. I plowed rather grimly through the Malloreon. People back then raved about the Belgariad, and made comments wishing it would go on forever. By the time I finished the Malloreon, I felt like it
had.
Eddings was too determined to drag his characters to
every part of their world, the authorial strings being pulled were too obvious, and things that were slight irritations, easily ignorable in the Belgariad, blossomed into full scale "pitch you out of the story" annoyances in the Malloreon. The whole thing wound up feeling like paint by numbers fantasy.
Subsequent Eddings works were no balm, as it became obvious he had one story to tell with one cast of characters, and the new series was the old series with the names changed and the serial numbers filed off.
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That's true, but these aren't (to my knowledge) huge sellers, so I don't have much hope that it will be done anytime soon.
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The Eddings did quite well back when, as did the Clancy. I think the Asprin stuff did as well, though I was never a fan of the "Myth" or Phule" books.
The issue is whether the publishers involved see an ebook market, and are willing to create electronic editions. (They may no longer have the electronic files for the books, and would need to create them from scratch.
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So Clancy and Rowlings has issues with ebooks overall?
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Rowling has refused to license electronic editions, for reasons I'm not clear on. I think it has to do with thinking her market is kids, and kids won't have readers. I don't think she realizes how many of her devoted readers are grownups.
Clancy may have as well, but I haven't seen anything on it. (I haven't looked, so I may well have missed it.)
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Dennis