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Originally Posted by Manabi
Still, I wouldn't vote something last solely because their publisher is so antagonistic, that's not fair to the author. If you find it unreadable and vote last because of that, at least let the author know WHY. It will take author pressure to get Orbit/Hachette to change. (Although I seem to recall they ignore their authors' opinions on DRM too, so maybe they're just trying to commit corporate suicide.)
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I fear we're getting way off topic for this thread, and I apologize. This will be my last comment on the Hugo Award nominee packet. I expect that the other Orbit novels will have crappy versions in the nominee packet also, but that doesn't mean that I will automatically rank them lower than the ones that I can read easily on my Nook. I figure that with one of the novels being nominated is a third in series and I haven't read the first two, and one Campbell nominee has a couple of novels I haven't read, and others may also provide a novel, I could have over 20 novels to read plus a number of shorter works if I want to be fair to the nominees. If I find that I don't have time to read 15 WoT novels because I can only read them on a computer, I will rank it lower than the ones that I have read and can compare. Is this unfair to Brandon Sanderson (whose work I generally enjoy) and the late Robert Jordan? Perhaps, but if the final WoT book had been on the ballot, I doubt that I would have attempted to obtain the entire WoT series and read the final book, and I would have rated it last, even if it was available in epub and kindle formats (I did that with the last GRRM Game of Thrones novel too, even though I own them all, I hadn't read any of them yet and I ran out of time to read them).
One final thing. If you do become a supporting member of Loncon3 for the Hugo Award nominee packet, do the authors a favor and vote for your favorites, and not just in the novel category.