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Old 09-26-2024, 02:16 PM   #541
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Hiero's Journey and The Unforsaken Hiero, by Sterling Lanier, are both finally ebooks - Hiero's Journey back in April and the Unforsaken Hiero has a publication date of today (9/26). I've been waiting for a long time for these.

They're post-nuclear holocaust books, written in the 70s. Lots of weird mutated humans and animals. If you played the game Gamma World back in the day, I understand that Hiero's Journey was a big influence on that.
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Gombrich, The Story of Art. Very popular and influential, if a bit dated.

I have a print copy, and there are pdfs and bad epubs floating around, but a legitimate epub would be nice.
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I was surprised to learn this week that most of Robert Heinlein's catalog is not available as ebooks. I guess I've never really looked since he is one of the authors whose books I will keep physical copies of, but I had a hankering to read a few of his books and found they were not available.

From what I can glean from googling, the rights to them are all over the place and they aren't likely to be available any time soon.
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Old 05-23-2025, 05:50 AM   #544
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Gombrich, The Story of Art. Very popular and influential, if a bit dated.

I have a print copy, and there are pdfs and bad epubs floating around, but a legitimate epub would be nice.
I remember that book. I had it once. An epub would be terrible. You need a giant colour tablet or PC screen and a PDF. Or the book.
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I was surprised to learn this week that most of Robert Heinlein's catalog is not available as ebooks. I guess I've never really looked since he is one of the authors whose books I will keep physical copies of, but I had a hankering to read a few of his books and found they were not available.

From what I can glean from googling, the rights to them are all over the place and they aren't likely to be available any time soon.
I thought most of Heinlein's books were available. The estate has moved them around a lot so you find them unavailable from the original vendor but available from the current one. What's one of the books you think is unavailable?

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I thought most of Heinlein's books were available. The estate has moved them around a lot so you find them unavailable from the original vendor but available from the current one. What's one of the books you think is unavailable?

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I may have spoken too soon, and my search skills failed me. It looks like a lot of his books are indeed available, Spectrum Literary agency is the publisher. there are a few that are available on the kindle store but no publisher is listed (farmer in the sky, Between planets, the rolling stones, Farnham's Freehold), and I wonder if they're legit.

It looks like his last three books (during his lifetime) are not available as kindle books:
Job
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
To Sail Beyond the Sunset
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I may have spoken too soon, and my search skills failed me. It looks like a lot of his books are indeed available, Spectrum Literary agency is the publisher. there are a few that are available on the kindle store but no publisher is listed (farmer in the sky, Between planets, the rolling stones, Farnham's Freehold), and I wonder if they're legit.

It looks like his last three books (during his lifetime) are not available as kindle books:
Job
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
To Sail Beyond the Sunset
They aren't available as an eBook in any format.
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I thought most of Heinlein's books were available. The estate has moved them around a lot so you find them unavailable from the original vendor but available from the current one. What's one of the books you think is unavailable?

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And he built a crooked house doesn’t seem to be available as an ebook besides pirated copies.
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And he built a crooked house doesn’t seem to be available as an ebook besides pirated copies.
https://www.amazon.com/If-This-Goes-...dp/B01MT7CCP4/

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They aren't available as an eBook in any format.
https://www.heinleinarchive.org/manu...ategory=Novels

The manuscripts for all three are available here as PDFs. Quite expensive though. I've not actually tried to buy them from there.

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and listed as being in this one:
"All You Zombies—: Five Classic Stories by Robert A. Heinlein"

be careful though...there's also a short story edition for "All You Zombies"
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I was surprised to learn this week that most of Robert Heinlein's catalog is not available as ebooks. I guess I've never really looked since he is one of the authors whose books I will keep physical copies of, but I had a hankering to read a few of his books and found they were not available.

From what I can glean from googling, the rights to them are all over the place and they aren't likely to be available any time soon.
He was popular in the early days of internet, I'm pretty sure that all of his work is available as ebook, in one form or another. Whether those works are commercially available is another story.
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He was popular in the early days of internet, I'm pretty sure that all of his work is available as ebook, in one form or another. Whether those works are commercially available is another story.
In the early days of the Internet, I didn't have any qualms about combing the usenet newsgroups and grabbing .pdb files to read on my palm pilot. After all, there was no way to get electronic files commercially. Nowadays I stick to legitimate copies. I like to think that those of us who were early adopters of ebooks helped to convince the publishers that there was a market for the format.
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and listed as being in this one:
[URL="All You Zombies—: Five Classic Stories by Robert A. Heinlein"]https://www.amazon.com/All-You-Zombies-Classic-Heinlein-ebook/dp/B00EIK1VCE[/URL]

be careful though...there's also a short story edition for "All You Zombies"
Interesting. Your link has the text where the link should be and vice versa. I've noparsed it to make this visible. Correct format should be:

[URL="https://www.amazon.com/All-You-Zombies-Classic-Heinlein-ebook/dp/B00EIK1VCE"]All You Zombies—: Five Classic Stories by Robert A. Heinlein[/URL]

All You Zombies—: Five Classic Stories by Robert A. Heinlein

I suspect you did the URL/text in the wrong order.
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