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Originally Posted by Hitch
Crich:
I'm sorry...but that just seems bloody ODD to me. Mary Stewart, sans any fanfare, published one of her best-known series on SW? Isn't this the same "KG Studios" trilogy/published set that was taken down by Amazon in 2011, because they purportedly couldn't establish the rights? Someone here, in fact, reported it?
And didn't this same KGStudios also have a SW copy of "The Once and Future King," IIRC?
I'm just saying that it's downright odd that any entity with this particular set of ebook rights isn't on Amazon, has no discernible business or office, and seems not to exist, given Mary Stewart's pretty worthy writing career. And, Crich, you were in a discussion about this in 2011, here on MR, too. (As a reminder).
Hitch
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Well I'd think that Mark Coker would have pulled it offline if there were something wrong. Certainly he wouldn't want to be sued by her pbook publisher I wouldn't think. Is there something wrong with it? I don't know. Certainly there have been illegal copies of books put up by others in the past (1984 is an example that comes to mind). I honestly don't remember the 2011 discussion so I'll have to take your word for that. I think it is telling though that you say we had a discussion in 2011 about the book and here it is the end of 2014 and it hasn't been yanked. Certainly someone should have mentioned it to the author or her publisher by now and had it pulled if there were something wrong.
Maybe she didn't want a wide distribution in ebook format? The woman was 97 when she died so she could have had someone do some ebook promotion and then had ill health interfere after that.