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Originally Posted by ratinox
Yay, licensing wonkiness. I assumed an Hachette company because I could not find a US publisher.
I checked Del Rey's web site this morning. They list two of the six new version collections as in print (#5 and #6) with placeholders for two more books but the purchase links go to "not found" pages across all of the vendors except for BAM which has the courtesy of informing viewers that these are not available at this time.
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I suspect the real issue is that Moorcock shifted publishers and is putting out a new edition of the books with Gollancz in the UK, which is a Hachette company. Thus, I suspect that as the contracts with Del Rey expire, they were simply not renewed, thus they are being pulled out of the store. At the moment, there doesn't seem to be an American publisher. They are available in the UK amazon kindle store. If it was a case of the publisher hating ebooks, they wouldn't be available in the UK.
I have the 1977 DAW book series in paper, and that's how I tend to think of the series. The ebook series reboot reordered the stories, added some new material and new illustrations. It sounds like the Gollancz reboot has made some new changes.
Christopher Rowley did the same thing with his Bazil Broketail series. The original series was 7 books written from 1992 to 1999. The ebooks came out starting in 2016 renamed and in a somewhat different edition.