Yeah, I keep thinking the same thing (about
Giotto and
Restoration) - especially since it's the second and third from the end that aren't available, and the last one was a few years after the others. Like that maybe the first ones went out of print, so Pears was able to negotiate regarding them, and then the last one was maybe enough later that the e-rights were in the contract, and maybe just those two are hung up somehow. Or something ike that! I eventually caved and sent paperbacks off to one of those services that cut up the book, and then scan and pdf them for you. I really don't like pdf for anything other than textbooks, but eventually I just got tired of waiting.
OTOH, one of my other favorite series, Marvin Albert's Stone Angel series, it was just that an independent publisher bought the rights to the series from Albert's family, and then took a long time to get them all published in e-book. A reeeeeaaaallllly long time! Like they did the first couple, and then it was a couple of years. And then they did a big bunch in the middle pretty quickly. And then the last two were many many years later - again, long enough that I had already done the scan/pdf thing...
Now I wish someone would do e-versions of Margot Arnold's Penny Spring/Toby Glendower books....
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Originally Posted by disconnected
I've always meant to read this, although it might be a little heavy going for the current state of my brain. I'm mainly reading or rereading really light stuff right now. I don't have an Amazon UK account so I bought it at Kobo UK for 4.99 and submitted a price match request; that's always worked for me so far.
What I'd really like to have are the two missing Jonathan/Flavia books -- Giotto's Hand and Death and Restoration. They must have fallen into a crack between publishers. Either that or whichever publisher has the rights has decided there isn't enough profit in them -- my very least favorite thing about the copyright system. |