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AnemicOak · 10-06-2016, 01:48 PM

There was an older omnibus that people were questioning about being legit years ago, but I don't know that any definitive proof was ever found one way of another. That edition is still available from Smashwords, and through them at Kobo, OverDrive, etc.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=119244
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=233178
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/43827

As for the new editions they do seem a bit odd. Harper renamed Eos into Harper Voyager in 2011 so I'm not sure they use the Eos name at all any more but I don't think so. If these were sold by Harper then they would say "HarperCollins Publishers - Price set by seller" in the buy button box on Amazon. While some big publisher books are sold DRM free these days to the best of my knowledge nothing from Harper is except from Carina Press and maybe other digital firsts if they have any others. No kind of front matter at all and just going right into the book after the cover. BUT, that doesn't mean they aren't legit. There's nothing to say that the estate didn't license these out somewhere besides Harper (just because they do the print books doesn't mean they own the digital rights) or aren't putting them out themselves. Wouldn't be the first time someone used a familiar sounding publisher name for self-pubbed stuff. The audio is put out by Blackstone which is a well known legit audio publisher.

10-06-2016, 01:48 PM	#12
AnemicOak Bookaholic Posts: 14,391 Karma: 54969924 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Minnesota Device: iPad Mini 4, AuraHD, iPhone XR +	There was an older omnibus that people were questioning about being legit years ago, but I don't know that any definitive proof was ever found one way of another. That edition is still available from Smashwords, and through them at Kobo, OverDrive, etc. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=119244 https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=233178 https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/43827 As for the new editions they do seem a bit odd. Harper renamed Eos into Harper Voyager in 2011 so I'm not sure they use the Eos name at all any more but I don't think so. If these were sold by Harper then they would say "HarperCollins Publishers - Price set by seller" in the buy button box on Amazon. While some big publisher books are sold DRM free these days to the best of my knowledge nothing from Harper is except from Carina Press and maybe other digital firsts if they have any others. No kind of front matter at all and just going right into the book after the cover. BUT, that doesn't mean they aren't legit. There's nothing to say that the estate didn't license these out somewhere besides Harper (just because they do the print books doesn't mean they own the digital rights) or aren't putting them out themselves. Wouldn't be the first time someone used a familiar sounding publisher name for self-pubbed stuff. The audio is put out by Blackstone which is a well known legit audio publisher. Last edited by AnemicOak; 10-06-2016 at 01:50 PM.