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Originally Posted by Alisa
I agree. Sometimes it's about the author but usually not. I've really been wanting to read Yiddish Policemen's Union. It was the first thing I flagged when Amazon introduced their new little feature to let the publisher know you want the title for the Kindle. Sadly a lot of publishers are slow to get on this bandwagon. I'm glad to have an easy way to tell them. He does have some of the McSweeney's stuff on Amazon but they're by a different publisher. YPU is "Harper Perennial". Not sure how that relates to HarperCollins who I thought was getting fairly enthusiastic about electronic publishing. Still, if we want it, we need to keep pestering. Folks could go write them or go hit that button on Amazon. Even if you don't own a Kindle, it seems to me publishers often release a title on multiple formats once they've bothered to do it at all.
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Harper Perrenial is an imprint of HarperCollins. HarperCollins was formed when News Corporation (Rupert Murdoch's company) bought Harper and Row, and merged it with British publisher William Collins. Other HarperCollins imprints include PB house Avon, William Morrow, and Zondervan, the Christian imprint. Harper's specifically SF line is Eos Books.
I suspect how enthusiastic Harper Collins is about ebooks depends upon just which imprint you are talking about.
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Dennis