Thread: The Iron Tower + Two Ways To Appreciate Middle Earth
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Old 08-26-2019, 01:29 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger View Post
It is very likely that the refusal of releasing an ebook of The Iron Tower was the publisher's fault. I suspect it has something to do with reversal of rights or at least the ebook rights. Why do I think that? The omnibus edition is his only ebook version currently in KU, also the price is reasonable at US$9.95. There could be other politics and power moves involved, though. The Lord of the Rings omnibus ebook is not in KU, while the individual parts are. Neither normal or enhanced ebook version of The Hobbit is in KU. There is no obvious rhyme or reason, but The Iron Tower was released in KU from the start. If The Silver Call follows and also comes to KU, reversing the rights back to the author becomes more likely.

On this all I can think of is that the fanbase is bigger and louder for The Lord of the Rings than your other examples, possibly the biggest for any book (excluding, of course, religious books). Do I dare say that some fans are very close to being fanatical? This crowd you can never make happy. It is either too much, too little, too different.

ETA: As to what he has to say about it in the new ebook foreword (just opened the book on my ereader, but I checked and you can see it also in "look inside" at Amazon).

Take it for what it is worth. Including the typo, which I submitted, maybe it will get fixed to "much credit is due to him."
Oh, I already bought the ebook. I have the paper version and the audiobook version of the first book of the original trilogy.

LOTR fans are fanatical? Surely you jest.

When I was in high school, I knew some people who could write using the Elvish runes. I suppose that I would be considered a fanatic given how many times I've read LOTR and the Hobbit, plus the assorted add on books put out by Christopher Tolkien, but I never went to that level.

Yea, I know people who absolutely hated the movies (as does Christopher Tolkien, whom I don't know) because of all the changes they made to the story. There was less angst when DeMille deviated from parts of the Bible while making the 10 Commandments!

Certainly, there were aspects where I wish that the movie had followed the book more closely, but all in all, I liked the movies.
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