Complete works of Andre Norton?

[ATDrake]

Thanks for the bibliography. I had no idea there were so many Witch World books, and also of the titles I could recognize and remember, I think I've read just a little over a dozen of her works total.

As for what's readily available in e-book format, Project Gutenberg lists 14 titles of hers that are in the US public domain (if one is tempted by the current Fictionwise 50% discount coupon to get any of the MultiFormat Norton books they list, don't, because they're all taken from PG by one company which at least reprints her stuff in paper, and another company which doesn't, and looks like it normally publishes rather low-quality fetish porn, which is an interesting contrast to the classic SF they rebundle).

Baen offers a further 30 or so copyrighted ones bundled into omnibus editions, including, I have just noticed, Wraiths of Time, which I think is the very first Norton I can remember reading, thanks to the school library's ancient selection, and a pretty awesome historical timeswitch story to boot.

I think I'll have to go get that, now.

[OakIris]

I have maybe read about half of the books Andre Norton wrote; as I said, she was a very prolific writer! I just wish there were more of her books available as eBooks - I certainly expected more to be in the public domain, but then she only died in 2005 and her estate wasn't settled until last year. Maybe more will find their way into the eBook world before too long.

Part of my liking of her books is nostalgia, I imagine - oh for my long lost youth when the worlds of scifi were new to me! I also liked her portrayal of human/other animal relationships - who knew there were so many telepathic animals, including humans, in the universe!

Should anyone be interested, here is a site that's all about Andre Norton and her books: http://www.andre-norton.org/

Holly

[ATDrake]

Originally Posted by OakIris

I just wish there were more of her books available as eBooks - I certainly expected more to be in the public domain, but then she only died in 2005 and her estate wasn't settled until last year.

The only reason why some of her stuff is in the public domain to begin with is because of the US' slightly weird public domain rules, which used to put works that didn't have their copyright renewed into PD after 28 years, among other oddities, until Disney interefered with their various extension schemes and the US has the current Life+70 (or rather, does-not-interfere-with-Disney's-ownership-of-"Steamboat Willie") situation.

Apparently this happened to a fair chunk of earlier sf/fantasy authors like Marion Zimmer Bradley (whose estate *has* been putting up her stuff DRM-free and MultiFormat over at Fictionwise, if you want to give it a go), which is why they've got PG entries.

Originally Posted by OakIris

Maybe more will find their way into the eBook world before too long.

Anyway, I just went to Kobo to see what Nortons they had, and there were an additional 22 titles from Tor and Grand Central Publishing once I deducted the PG public domain freebies.

A lot of them were Witch World (at least one title was an omnibus collection with 3+ books), which is what I believe you were looking for most?

If you look in the Deals, Freebies, and Resources forum here, there are currently two single-use Kobo coupons for 25-30% off. Since you're in the US, they probably won't work with the Tor books, since they're owned by one of those price-fixing Agency 5 publishers which don't allow discounting and I've heard that coupons can't apply for US customers on those, but you might be able to save on the Grand Central ones, maybe.

And Kobo often has discount coupons, usually for $1 off at a time on eligible books. So if you're looking to build your Norton collection, it looks like you can do it a little cheaper now, though I just noticed you have a Kindle so you'd have to deal with either limiting yourself to reading them on a computer/phone app, or learning to liberate your purchases and thus it may not be worth a relatively minor pricedrop.

Alternatively, you can come up here to Canada and wait 45 years, after which under our Life+50 rules, all of Andre Norton's non-collab works will be public domain.

Provided our government doesn't change things in the meantime, that is.

ETA: Just realized you probably already bought all the Kindle versions of those Tor/GCP books before even coming to MR to ask about more.

Well, at least you now know whom probably to write about releasing the rest of the Witch World works.

[OakIris]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

Apparently this happened to a fair chunk of earlier sf/fantasy authors like Marion Zimmer Bradley (whose estate *has* been putting up her stuff DRM-free and MultiFormat over at Fictionwise, if you want to give it a go), which is why they've got PG entries.

I'll have to check this out - I have a lot of Marion Zimmer Bradley's books in paperback and hardback as I do like her writing. If I can replace some of these with eBook freebies, that would be really nice - my book shelves are groaning and it's time to start eliminating some of the books so things aren't quite so crowded! Also, thank you for the info about the change in US copyright/public domain laws. Kind of sucks for the "end-user" but hopefully it did some good for the authors and/or their estates.

Originally Posted by ATDrake

Anyway, I just went to Kobo to see what Nortons they had, and there were an additional 22 titles from Tor and Grand Central Publishing once I deducted the PG public domain freebies.

A lot of them were Witch World (at least one title was an omnibus collection with 3+ books), which is what I believe you were looking for most?

If you look in the Deals, Freebies, and Resources forum here, there are currently two single-use Kobo coupons for 25-30% off. Since you're in the US, they probably won't work with the Tor books, since they're owned by one of those price-fixing Agency 5 publishers which don't allow discounting and I've heard that coupons can't apply for US customers on those, but you might be able to save on the Grand Central ones, maybe.

And Kobo often has discount coupons, usually for $1 off at a time on eligible books. So if you're looking to build your Norton collection, it looks like you can do it a little cheaper now, though I just noticed you have a Kindle so you'd have to deal with either limiting yourself to reading them on a computer/phone app, or learning to liberate your purchases and thus it may not be worth a relatively minor pricedrop.

Yup, I have the Kindle, haven't found any 25-30% off coupons for Kindle format books - I wonder why?

Originally Posted by ATDrake

Alternatively, you can come up here to Canada and wait 45 years, after which under our Life+50 rules, all of Andre Norton's non-collab works will be public domain.

Great idea, but I am too old and I won't last that long

Originally Posted by ATDrake

ETA: Just realized you probably already bought all the Kindle versions of those Tor/GCP books before even coming to MR to ask about more.

Well, at least you now know whom probably to write about releasing the rest of the Witch World works.

I have some of the books and "omnibuses" offered for the Kindle. There is a lot of duplication there, of course, for the "free" eBooks since only a limited number of Norton's works made it into the public domain. I'll read what I have first before buying any more - need to find out if I actually like her writing or if it really is all about nostalgia.

Holly