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So far, all I can say is that it did not bounce and I did not get an automated responce. So I'll probably not see any reply until Tuesday if then. |
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02-16-2008, 08:28 PM | #108 | |
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You know, I was just thinking about a couple of other examples like that, such as Robert Harris's _Fatherland_, published over here as a mystery. Same premise: Nazi Germany won WWII, and the protagonist is a German cop tossed into the middle of a nasty mystery. A friend of mine is British SF/Fantasy writer Liz Williams. She's still getting published in the UK by Macmillan, but was dropped from the roster by US publisher Bantam/Spectra. Liz had a similar problem. Her stuff is brilliant, but every book was different. She built a cult following, but Bantam/Spectra is the largest mass market PB house, and they need much more than cult sales. She's currently being published in the US by small press Night Shade Books, who are doing well with her "Detective Inspector Chen" novels, set in a near future where Singapore has spawned a franchise -- Chen is a police officer in Singapore3. It's fantasy because Chinese mythology is very real in Singapore3. Chen is the "snake agent" -- the department specialist in crimes involving the supernatural. His wife is a demon, and he finds himself partnered with Zhu Irzh, a Seneschal of the Ministry of Vice in Hell. Hell has laws too, and demons whose job is to enforce them. I'm reading the third one now, and it's a delight. The series is doing well enough that Night Shade is happy to issue them. (And I've met the Night Shade folks. They are delighted to be able to publish Liz.) Liz ran into the same problem as Jo, but on this side of the pond: too hard to neatly classify, pigeonhole, and sell. ______ Dennis |
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@Dennis: Are any of Liz Williams' books available in bits? More specifically, in bits that I can use on my PRS500?
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There are a couple of Liz Williams eBook over at BooksOnBoard in Mobipocket format. Just Strip the DRM, run Mobi2lrf and voila!
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Night Shade doesn't seem to do ebooks. I don't know offhand about Bantam/Spectra or Macmillan UK. Hmmm. Just saw Jon's post. Good to know. ______ Dennis |
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I will not let a PDF file get the best of me. I shall read this and fix the errors and get a good copy out of it when all is said and done.
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I don't know guys : I think that - even in crappy pdf, the fact that the ebook proposed by Tor is free AND drm-free is a real good sign for the future.
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02-17-2008, 07:05 AM | #118 | |
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OK, some real news about the Tor thing. I was talking about this to a friend on LiveJournal, and who should be reading it but Patrick Nielsen-Hayden of Tor, who says:
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02-17-2008, 07:17 AM | #119 |
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Tor? Baen? Somebody is gonna wear a TorBaen around their head?
OK, not too puny, but I like the progressive and proactive response from Tor. I did d/l the first novel and well, when i noticed it was a PDF I just decided I have plenty of other stuff to read and I wasn't going to waste the heartbeats trying to convert the mess. I think the combined forces of Baen & Tor are a natural...interesting thanks for posting that response you received back! |
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I ended up editting the raw HTML to search & replace them back - Together with a bit of editing things such as the page breaks, I think I've now got a decent enough copy, including em-dashes & italics, which my first pdf2lrf try dropped. Having said that, it's not quite as pretty as the PDF, as my chapter headers only have the central graphic, not the full effect... I don't have a copy of Acrobat to hand, (although now I think of it, I did have an very old version in the past,) so unfortunately, I can't compare the result from that. Worth asking the Tor contact if there's any way we can upload a 'legal' .lrf/html0 format here? Last edited by gwynevans; 02-17-2008 at 08:30 AM. |
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