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Originally Posted by Dazrin
The Cinder Spires one was part of the next novel but was cut, almost certainly at the publisher's direction. Rather than deleting it and it never getting published or waiting years for him to have enough of these ready to publish an anthology, he published it separately and independently.
Like John F said, would you prefer if it wasn't published at all?
This isn't a new thing either. He's published Dresden stuff in other locations many times ( link). Digital magazines, non-related anthologies, etc., not all of which are available at all normal distribution points. It seems like you're bent out of shape more about this one being Amazon exclusive specifically, not about exclusive to one source in general.
Besides, I would be surprised if they don't show up in an anthology later on (he's done that with most of the Dresden short stories) but then you'd have to read the stories out of chronological order. Which isn't a big deal for most people since they don't push the overall story lines much. But, I appreciate that when he had a way to get them to us earlier in some form, he did it. Even though its not my normal preference. |
The other Dresden Files short stories (except
The Law) were published in anthologies that are available in ePub and on Amazon. So it's up to the reader if he/she wanted them or not before they were collected in the short story collections.
But when they are exclusive to Amazon, a lot of people cannot get them. That is just very much wrong. And either everyone can get these short stories or they don't get published. They could have been published on Smashwords for everyone if need be.