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Originally Posted by GeoffR
Is this legit do you think?
Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light ebook
Publisher: Wilder Publications, Inc.
Release Date: December 30, 2018
Imprint: Amber Ltd
ISBN: 9781515439233
Only at Kobo and Nook (Edit: and Apple US/Canada only) so far of the bigger retailers.
(Edit: The publisher and ISBN info match the first five Amber ebooks so it is probably okay, it is hard to find any solid information about this publisher though.) |
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
The ebook publisher for the first 5 Amber books is Amber Ltd, the Zelazny estate's private publisher. I would be a bit wary about any Zelazny book put out by someone else. I've seen a lot of complaints about Wilder. I would also be absolutely shocked if a legit, that Lord of Light was not on Amazon given that Amazon is the biggest ebook store in the US by a large, large margin.
I will say that Lord of Light appeared on the iTunes store a year or two ago. When I followed up by sending an email to Jane Lindskold, I was told that it was not legit and the book disappeared a month or two later.
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Originally Posted by GeoffR
For the first five Amber books the publisher is also Wilder Publications Inc., and the imprint is Amber Ltd. But Amazon's metadata doesn't seem to have room for the imprint, so many publishers put the imprint name in the publisher field on Amazon. E.g. books published by Random House's Spectra imprint often just have Spectra listed as publisher on Amazon, but on other sites Random House is listed as publisher and Spectra as imprint.
Amazon can sometimes be slow at listing new books. Since this one was only released a week ago my guess is it will turn up on Amazon in the next few weeks.
But there have been so many pirated versions of this book uploaded to all the retailers over the years I am a little wary of this one too.
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I am going to keep my fingers crossed that it is legit. This is one of my favorite Roger Zelazny books and I have been waiting for it to be released as an ebook. I have reread my paper copy so many times it is starting to look shabby.
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