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Amazon bought a young PoD company caled Booksurge a year or two ago and -- in typical bully-boy fashion -- refused to carry any longer the tens of thousands of titles produced by publishing houses that used better and cheaper PoD options (like Lightning Source International in the US and UK). Their main aim was to lose the big time author mills and self-publishing and vanity operations like PublishAmerica and Lulu's global package and corner that lucrative market for themselves. Genuine small indies they tended to leave alone after the initial scare. My own wee house uses (non-Amazon) PoD and prices are competitive with mass-produced books in the high street ... and at Amazon's own sites.
Sorry for the wee rant.
My purpose in popping into this thread, apart from reading what other folks miss of treebooks not available in ebook formats, was to ask if anyone knows where I could get an ebook copy of George R Stewart's *Earth Abides*. I've searched high and low because it was a favourite when I was a kid and read it many times and fancy another run at a post-apocalyptic groundbreaker to see if it holds the same appeal now that I'm an old man (the book was published in the year of my birth; 1949).
Cheers. Neil
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