Top Ten Books Missing as eBooks

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by caleb72

By the way - I'm completely distraught also that a great deal of Le Guin's works are not available as ebooks: Rocannon's World, The Word for World is Forest, Threshold, the Earthsea books, The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness.

It's a crying shame.

^^^^ THIS ^^^^^

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by anamardoll

Oh my god, Rebecca, yes. I finally sent it to 1DollarScan.

Isn't it public domain? I get so confused sometimes at all the rules.

It just feels that way!

[Apache]

One I know will never be released as an ebook is Shoot Him On Sight by William Colt MacDonald. It has always been my favorite non Louis L'Amour Western Book.
Apache

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Apache

One I know will never be released as an ebook is Shoot Him On Sight by William Colt MacDonald. It has always been my favorite non Louis L'Amour Western Book.
Apache

Why will it never be released as an eBook?

[gweeks]

Originally Posted by Pulpmeister

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is definitely available. MacMillan. I recall seeing it on my brother's Kindle but haven't had a look at it yet.

I thought it was, but I didn't find it currently available. A bunch of the Heinlein ebook rights came up for renewal and went to different publishers. It's possible the new publisher doesn't have it up again yet. Baen picked up several of them.

Greg Weeks

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by gweeks

I thought it was, but I didn't find it currently available. A bunch of the Heinlein ebook rights came up for renewal and went to different publishers. It's possible the new publisher doesn't have it up again yet. Baen picked up several of them.

Greg Weeks

I may of course be mistaken, but I don't believe that this particular book has ever been legally available as an eBook. I've kept an eye out for it, because it's one of my personal favourites.

[Pinecone]

Yes, Moon is a Harsh Mistress hasn't come up yet, legally.

A number of Heinlein books were availbable, then a batch came available later, then nothing for a while.

Alistair MacLean has a number available, but not all of them (in the US). I maybe have to see about buying from the UK Kindle store next week when I am in London.

But this type of thing is why some revert to torrent sites. I admit I picked up a few Heinleni books elsewhere, but I buy them as they become available through other outlets.

There are a few other authors where this is also the case.

Hey, for someone in the UK are the 633 Squadron books available in ebooks form in the UK?

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Pinecone

Alistair MacLean has a number available, but not all of them (in the US). I maybe have to see about buying from the UK Kindle store next week when I am in London.

I'd suggest that you buy from Waterstones (the largest British ePub bookstore) in ePub format, and convert to Mobi (www.waterstones.com). You can't buy eBooks from Amazon UK as a "visitor" - you have to move your account from the US to the UK site, and I think it's a one-way move.

Hey, for someone in the UK are the 633 Squadron books available in ebooks form in the UK?

Do you have a title or author? I'll check for you.

[Blue Tyson]

You can't buy from any of the UK types unless you are in the UK, including Waterstones.

[Harmon]

Originally Posted by pholy

I'm a little hesitant to call anyone a weirdo until after I have dealt with them directly and gotten to know them.

At that point, of course, you realize that everyone is a weirdo...

Or, in the words of the Firesign Theatre, "I Think We're All Bozos on this Bus."

This hit home to me when I read Chesterton's essay on Dickens, in which he (Chesterton) took on the notion that the characters in Dicken's books were broadly drawn, and, indeed, caricatures. Not so, said Chesterton. If you take a look around you, and consider the people you see to be characters in Dickens, you will immediately see that Dickens draws from life.

So the question you would resolve by meeting Le Guin is not whether she is a weirdo. It is merely what kind of weirdo she is. She may be a different weirdo than we think...

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Blue Tyson

You can't buy from any of the UK types unless you are in the UK, including Waterstones.

This is very true, but I was responding to the previous poster's comment that he was visiting London, and planned to buy some eBooks while there. It would be much easier to do so via Waterstones, than Amazon.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by Blue Tyson

You can't buy from any of the UK types unless you are in the UK, including Waterstones.

Well, there are ways to get around that. I maintain my Amazon account in the US, a Kobo account in Canada, and am about to set up a Waterstones account in the UK.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Harmon

At that point, of course, you realize that everyone is a weirdo...

Or, in the words of the Firesign Theatre, "I Think We're All Bozos on this Bus." <snip>

Though the authorship of the famous quote* by Cardinal Richelieu is disputed, I think I can say without too much fear of dispute that if you know anyone well enough, you can probably find six reasons why they could use the services of a good psychiatrist.


* "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

[Bookpossum]

Originally Posted by Blue Tyson

If she is, then she is really, really terrible at it for someone so prominent given she has had many years to do so.

So weirdly anti-ebook, or incompetent in those two scenarios, one or the other.

I am puzzled by the attack on Ursula Le Guin, a writer whom I admire very much for her work, and for her wisdom and compassion. If you read her blog, which is a series of thoughtful essays that I recommend to anyone who cares about the state of the world, you would have come across the essay numbered 19, written earlier this year, about Google.

In it she states that Google has taken some of her work and made digital copies without her agreement. If an author of her standing is treated with such a lack of respect, it is hardly surprising that she may not wish to rush into having her work turned into digital editions.

You can find her blog at:

http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Blog2011.html#New

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Harmon

At that point, of course, you realize that everyone is a weirdo...

Or, in the words of the Firesign Theatre, "I Think We're All Bozos on this Bus."

This hit home to me when I read Chesterton's essay on Dickens, in which he (Chesterton) took on the notion that the characters in Dicken's books were broadly drawn, and, indeed, caricatures. Not so, said Chesterton. If you take a look around you, and consider the people you see to be characters in Dickens, you will immediately see that Dickens draws from life.

So the question you would resolve by meeting Le Guin is not whether she is a weirdo. It is merely what kind of weirdo she is. She may be a different weirdo than we think...