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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Just as an update, there is now a review that says that it doesn't appear to be legit. The reviewer says that he contacted Zelazny's son, who doesn't think it's legit. I raised the issue with Amazon's online support. She claimed that Amazon got the rights to sell the ebook. We will see what happens. I'm sure that if the reviewer did contact Zelazny's son and it's not legit, then the rights holder will contact Amazon with a take down notice fairly quickly. I've taken a quick look at the ebook and it seems to be fairly good quality.
As a follow up, Amazon sent me an email saying that the e-book is authorized and that the publishers did give them written permission. If so, then that's great. If the Nine Princes in Amber doesn't get pulled and the Guns of Avalon comes out this time next month, then my conclusion will be that everything is on the level and I've going to be a very happy camper indeed!
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I still don't believe that it is a legitimate e-book. I purchased the book from Amazon and looked it over. It contains no publisher or copyright information. It appears identical to the version that was circulating on newsgroups years ago.
Edit to add: The book has only ASCII characters, straight quotes only, italics in the print edition are missing, etc. The metadata shows it was produced using MS Word.