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mandy314 · 02-28-2015, 06:21 AM

One of the good things about ebooks are re-releases imho. I bought a Kindle NT in 2012 to get my hand on some 70/80s crime & mystery only available as ebooks. And that could have been the end of my digital reader career - as some of the books were done quick and dirty with scan artifacts, sloppy punctuation and formatting ... But I upgraded to a Kindle PW1, learned about all kind of modifications, hacks, book editing and am a happy bunny (and more tolerant to the errors).

Now 2015 has seen the re-emergence of the Molly Cates novels by Mary Willis Walker (Under the Beetle's Cellar from 1995 has won the Hammett Prize, the Anthony Award for Best Novel and the Macavity Award for Best Novel) and of the James Pibble novels by Peter Dickinson (also multiple award wins here - but at the moment the prize is rather high at amazon.com). Some of these books have been out-of-print for many years.

My hopes for more re-releases (top three) are:
- Jack Stryker & Kate Trevorne series by Paula Gosling
- Appalachian Ballad series by Sharyn McCrumb
- The Money Harvest by Ross Thomas

What are yours (crime & mystery or other genres)?

02-28-2015, 06:21 AM	#1
mandy314 Connoisseur Posts: 71 Karma: 200092 Join Date: Mar 2014 Device: kindle pw1	EBook re-releases: so far 2015 is a good year for us crime fiction lovers (I think) One of the good things about ebooks are re-releases imho. I bought a Kindle NT in 2012 to get my hand on some 70/80s crime & mystery only available as ebooks. And that could have been the end of my digital reader career - as some of the books were done quick and dirty with scan artifacts, sloppy punctuation and formatting ... But I upgraded to a Kindle PW1, learned about all kind of modifications, hacks, book editing and am a happy bunny (and more tolerant to the errors). Now 2015 has seen the re-emergence of the Molly Cates novels by Mary Willis Walker (Under the Beetle's Cellar from 1995 has won the Hammett Prize, the Anthony Award for Best Novel and the Macavity Award for Best Novel) and of the James Pibble novels by Peter Dickinson (also multiple award wins here - but at the moment the prize is rather high at amazon.com). Some of these books have been out-of-print for many years. My hopes for more re-releases (top three) are: - Jack Stryker & Kate Trevorne series by Paula Gosling - Appalachian Ballad series by Sharyn McCrumb - The Money Harvest by Ross Thomas What are yours (crime & mystery or other genres)?