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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
The bit I read was the concierge describing herself. I have no idea how true it is to the original, but it doesn't read in a laboured way like some translations can do.
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if you can cite it here i could let you know. that's one of the famous quotes in the book, used everywhere as the excerpt, so i know it already.
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I will do - it's published by a company called Gallic Books, whose aim is to bring French books to the UK. I can't see any ebooks on their site, so I'm not holding my breath. But I did mention the original was available as an ebook
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ha, nice ! i've not heard of them but i like the idea, for obvious reasons.
now we just have to get them to make ebooks...
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It is staggering the amount some publishers charge for ebooks. Hopefully as the market picks up that will change. I can be optimistic at times if I want to be
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"staggering" is a much more polite word than i might use...
but i am trying also to be optimistic (i'm also writing to publishers frequently. in fact i wrote to gallimard when i saw the pocket edition of the paper book was coming out, to "gently remind" them of the ebook price and "confirm" that they would naturally be lowering it accordingly...
i got no reply from them and they took their sweet time about it (and in fact in all the shops but one it's still full price ; the shop i bought if from, numilog, is also a big distributor and may have created the file to begin with, so they are probably the source for the others, which would explain why they reduced the price first) but they finally did reduce it, must have been very recent too because i checked just a few days ago or a week and it was still at 19€.