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Old 06-08-2012, 02:56 PM   #1
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A Writer Evolves: Ray Bradbury's Backlist to Be Digitally Published
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Ray Bradbury was right about so many things and spellbinding about so many others that it almost hurts to write this: Ray Bradbury was wrong when it came to reading. But then I also get to tell you this: he changed his mind. HarperCollins is in the midst of preparing its Ray Bradbury backlist for digital publication, paidContent has learned.

Bradbury’s longtime editor Jennifer Brehl talked to me about the plans and the author, who died Tuesday because, she said, “I don’t want people to think he was this dinosaur because he had some opinions” that he started to change late in life.

The details for the “huge undertaking” are still being worked out but Brehl said plans were well under way with Bradbury’s approval. (I’ve yet to reach Bradbury’s agent Michael Congdon.) “He knew we were going to do this,” she said. “He agreed to it. … I told Ray, ‘You have to step boldly into the future.’”

She added, “We respected his wishes for so long. [He finally said] ‘Yeah, ok, I see what you’re saying.’” The HarperCollins e-books all will be available to libraries no matter the publishers’ overall strategy, according to Brehl. “That was one of the big, big concerns.”

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Old 06-08-2012, 03:31 PM   #2
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I'm happy there will be some more options for his books.
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Old 06-08-2012, 06:55 PM   #3
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I'm happy there will be some more options for his books.
I like that when he finally gave in to his publishers wish for ebook editions, Bradbury went a step further and made it conditional on the ebooks being available in libraries.
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Old 06-08-2012, 07:27 PM   #4
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I like that when he finally gave in to his publishers wish for ebook editions, Bradbury went a step further and made it conditional on the ebooks being available in libraries.
Leverage properly used is a nice legacy.
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“My God, all this Internet stuff is pure crap. You can’t take a computer to bed. You can take a book to bed.”


I guess back then, computers weren't the sluts books were.
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I guess back then, computers weren't the sluts books were.
But they were hot!

(My apologies to Bradbury fans, but it was too good for me not to post...)
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Old 06-09-2012, 10:06 AM   #10
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HarperCollins has a 26 checkout limit on ebooks. So is Bradbury's "library access for all" policy going to supercede that limit, or not? Technically speaking, it is still library access, even with the cap....

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I'm glad he came around on this issue!

He was definitely nostalgic so I wasn't surprised to hear that he wasn't a fan of ereaders. And of course, a major work, Fahrenheit 451, doesn't work in the digital age. (I always took it as more of a fairy tale than hard s-f, so that doesn't bother me.)

But he was also a futurist, and in this case the future kind of sneaked up on him. I'm glad he was able to make peace with it.
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HarperCollins has a 26 checkout limit on ebooks. So is Bradbury's "library access for all" policy going to supercede that limit, or not? Technically speaking, it is still library access, even with the cap....

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Good point. He might not have even been aware of that limitation and wouldn't know to require an exception.
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I'm glad he came around on this issue!

He was definitely nostalgic so I wasn't surprised to hear that he wasn't a fan of ereaders. And of course, a major work, Fahrenheit 451, doesn't work in the digital age. (I always took it as more of a fairy tale than hard s-f, so that doesn't bother me.)
But it was pirated published digitally anyway. Which is ironic.
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