Perry Mason e-books?

HarryT · 08-27-2011, 10:35 AM

Does anyone know if the "Perry Mason" series is legally available as e-books? I'd love to re-read some of these, but can't find them anywhere.

Thanks!

SensualPoet · 08-27-2011, 11:43 AM

As far as I have been able to determine the answer is no and has always been no. House of Stratus (who reissued all the Michael Innes Inspector Appleby) may have / had rights; they seem to be the only ones with paper editions actually in print.

HarryT · 08-27-2011, 12:31 PM

Oh well, maybe one day. Thanks a lot!

crich70 · 08-27-2011, 02:21 PM

I've often wondered the same thing about the old Ellery Queen books. Probably they aren't available yet either.

Greg Anos · 08-27-2011, 03:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HarryT

Oh well, maybe one day. Thanks a lot!

They should go P.D. in life + 70 in the year 2041...

Catlady · 08-27-2011, 03:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crich70

I've often wondered the same thing about the old Ellery Queen books. Probably they aren't available yet either.

Langtail Press has published a few Ellery Queen titles for Kindle.

HarryT · 08-27-2011, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

They should go P.D. in life + 70 in the year 2041...

Oh well, I might get to read them in my final years, then

.

ATDrake · 08-27-2011, 05:31 PM

Come visit Canada in a decade's time. Then you can read them as soon as 2021!*

* Provided our current Conservative government does not give in to foreign corporate interest lobbying and change things in the meantime.

Dr. Drib · 08-27-2011, 09:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HarryT

Oh well, I might get to read them in my final years, then

.

Unfortunately, I'll be dead.

Don

SensualPoet · 08-27-2011, 09:26 PM

Perhaps if this is a case of a race to death ... the reader vs. copyright laws protecting already dead authors ... and the author has already been dead 35 years and the rights holders can't be bothered to have the authors works in print in any medium ... it might be okay to make an exception and obtain one or two through "other" channels.

WT Sharpe · 08-28-2011, 12:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Unfortunately, I'll be dead.

Don

And when the zombie apocalypse comes, and the undead walk the streets muttering, "Brains! Brains!", I can picture your reanimated corpse crying, "Mason! Mason!"

WT Sharpe · 08-28-2011, 12:57 AM

It's a real shame that Gardner's Mason series isn't available in ebook formats. I really love that series; especially the earlier books, in which Erle Stanley Gardner, himself a lawyer, earned the ire of many of his colleagues by writing of a lawyer who, as often as not, bent and sometimes outright broke laws to benefit his clients. I'll never forget how his planted evidence in The Case of the Counterfeit Eye—meant to exonerate his client—backfired and implicated his client instead. Those early Mason novels were always two-fors—two mysteries for the price of one. The first, of course, was who was the real murderer. The second was how Mason was going to get himself out of the pickle he had got himself into without getting disbarred.

mikaelalind · 08-28-2011, 04:01 AM

Booksonboard's UK site have some of them

http://www.booksonboard.com/index.ph...=searchresults

Edit: I didn't notice they were audiobooks, not e-books

crich70 · 08-28-2011, 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

They should go P.D. in life + 70 in the year 2041...

Mmmm. I'll only be 71 so I might have changed prescriptions by then but will hopefully be around yet. lol.

HarryT · 08-28-2011, 08:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crich70

Mmmm. I'll only be 71 so I might have changed prescriptions by then but will hopefully be around yet. lol.

Of course, you realise that by then the copyright term will probably be "life + 199"

.

08-27-2011, 10:35 AM	#1
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Perry Mason e-books? Does anyone know if the "Perry Mason" series is legally available as e-books? I'd love to re-read some of these, but can't find them anywhere. Thanks!

08-28-2011, 04:01 AM	#13
mikaelalind Fanatic Posts: 590 Karma: 788068 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Sweden Device: Sony PRS 505, Cybook Odessey	Booksonboard's UK site have some of them http://www.booksonboard.com/index.ph...=searchresults Edit: I didn't notice they were audiobooks, not e-books Last edited by mikaelalind; 08-28-2011 at 04:42 AM.

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SensualPoet Wizard Posts: 2,302 Karma: 2607151 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Toronto Device: Kobo Aura HD, Kindle Paperwhite, Asus ZenPad 3, Kobo Glo	As far as I have been able to determine the answer is no and has always been no. House of Stratus (who reissued all the Michael Innes Inspector Appleby) may have / had rights; they seem to be the only ones with paper editions actually in print.

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HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Oh well, maybe one day. Thanks a lot!

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crich70 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,310 Karma: 43993832 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Monroe Wisconsin Device: K3, Kindle Paperwhite, Calibre, and Mobipocket for Pc (netbook)	I've often wondered the same thing about the old Ellery Queen books. Probably they aren't available yet either.

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08-27-2011, 09:26 PM	#10
SensualPoet Wizard Posts: 2,302 Karma: 2607151 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Toronto Device: Kobo Aura HD, Kindle Paperwhite, Asus ZenPad 3, Kobo Glo	Perhaps if this is a case of a race to death ... the reader vs. copyright laws protecting already dead authors ... and the author has already been dead 35 years and the rights holders can't be bothered to have the authors works in print in any medium ... it might be okay to make an exception and obtain one or two through "other" channels.

08-28-2011, 12:57 AM	#12
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	It's a real shame that Gardner's Mason series isn't available in ebook formats. I really love that series; especially the earlier books, in which Erle Stanley Gardner, himself a lawyer, earned the ire of many of his colleagues by writing of a lawyer who, as often as not, bent and sometimes outright broke laws to benefit his clients. I'll never forget how his planted evidence in The Case of the Counterfeit Eye—meant to exonerate his client—backfired and implicated his client instead. Those early Mason novels were always two-fors—two mysteries for the price of one. The first, of course, was who was the real murderer. The second was how Mason was going to get himself out of the pickle he had got himself into without getting disbarred.

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