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They're nicely formatted, and I'm sure the illustrations are nice, but they're tiny on my iLiad. In fact, I can see them better on my Palm Z22, because at least there I can blow them up and scroll them round. I guess they're optimised for a smaller screen than the iLiad.
In terms of content, Moorcock fans (like me) will find them fascinating, because the stories are interspersed with other articles and stories Moorcock was writing at the same time, which illuminate what he was doing in the Elric stories themselves. They're also the original stories, with the intros from the magazines they were published in, rather than the rewrites he did later to make the stories more coherent. The first volume has a long and interesting introduction by the author, in which, among other things, he admits that the rude things he's said about Lord of the Rings in the past may not have been entirely justifed :-) If you're just interested in good stories, without their literary roots, these are probably not for you, though since they're the only Elric volumes available as ebooks, you may want to get them anyway, and skip the connecting material.
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