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Originally Posted by crossi
A few years back nearly every day there were some backlist books that I had been waiting for converted to ebooks. I used to get a lot of emails from ereaderiq. Now this has slowed to a trickle. I haven't got an email from ereaderiq for quite a few months. It seems the ones left just aren't interested in converting so there may never be an ebook version unless I wanted to wait 70 years, assuming the book hadn't been long forgotten by everyone and lost forever.
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You have a point. I think the last backlist book that I bought was Christopher Rowley's Battle Dragon's (i.e. Bazil Brokentail) series. Number 6 came out in January. Zelazny's Courts of Chaos came out in November. I'm kind of hard pressed past that. Maybe some of Feist's Riftwar books.
When I look at the holes in my collection, there are some specific works by a few well known writers such as Zelazny and Asimov, and some of the early works by mid list writers, but most seem to be slightly obscure orphaned works where the author is dead and whomever holds the copyright doesn't seem particularly interested if they aren't going to make bank (and most of these type books won't sell all that many). There certainly is a dog in the manger aspect to this situation given that many of those books are rapidly fading from memory. A lot of authors from the late 70's and early 80's who only published a handful of books.