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Audiobooks is a booming market and really seems to be bypassing eBooks as a growth market. There are a lot of back list audiobooks out there, yet, there are also some surprising gaps.

One of the big surprises for me is that the Roger Zelazny catalog hasn't made it's way to audiobooks. Of course, the Amber series is there with a couple of excellent narrators. This Immortal is also available. Lord of Light was available earlier, but no longer is. Sometimes, with audiobooks that were recorded in the early days of audiobooks, the older version gets pulled and then is re-released with a new narrator. But as far as I know, none of his other books have been made into audiobooks. At least those are the ones I bought and no others are in the audible catalogue.

Of course, the Zelazny catalogue is one of those odd situations for both ebooks and audiobooks and frankly is the poster child for what's wrong with the copyright system.

But, a lot of authors who were at one time popular only have a few of their works available as audiobooks. Some of that might be the orphaned work issue, but some of those authors are still alive. Perhaps it's just a case that the expense of recording a quality audiobook means that it's difficult to cost justify recording some of the older backlist books.