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On a different front, one of the two remaining paperback books in my collection, Larry Niven's "Protector," is finally available on Amazon. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be available (yet) anywhere else (I checked abebooks (physical books only?), baen, barnes and noble, booksamillion, ebooks.com, google, kobo and smashwords). I can't find who published this as an ebook, so I can't check the publisher. Is there normally a delay between various outlets getting ebooks available to sell? I'd assume that Amazon would be first just because of their size. What kind of delay between various outlets getting a book to sell is normal?
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I think there's something fishy going on there. Why does the cover of the Kindle edition appear to be taken from an old copy that has a dent in the top left corner? Why does it have no copyright page in the book sample? I feel like it's an unauthorized edition maybe...
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That's unusual. My experience is that I get the latest version of the ePub from Overdrive.
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</head><body> <img src="../images/00001.jpeg"/><h3><b id="2-4075afe7f55f4dc6b79995ce207a6658">Larry Niven</b></h3> <font size="-2"><i><p>Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. His mission: save, develop, and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some two and a half million years before…</p> <p>Brennan was a Belter, the product of a fiercely independent, somewhat anarchic society living in, on, and around an outer asteroid belt. The Belters were rebels, one and all, and Brennan was a smuggler. The Belt worlds had been tracking the Pak ship for days — Brennan figured to meet that ship first…</p> He was never seen again — at least not by those alive at the time. <p>The work fleshes out a species called the Pak, originally introduced in a story called Pak Protectors. The first half of the novel is titled Phssthpok and the second half is titled Vandervecken. The first half was previously published as The Adults. The novel Destroyer of Worlds will serve as a semi-sequel to Protector.</p> Nominated for Hugo and Locus awards in 1974.</i></font> <h1><b>by Larry Niven PHSSTHPOK</b></h1> <i><p>Genesis, Chapter 3, King James version:<br/> 22 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever:<br/> 23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.<br/> 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden Cher-u-bims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.</p> <b>***</b></i> <p>He sat before an eight-foot circle of clear twing, looking endlessly out on a view that was less than exciting.<br/> Even a decade ago those stars had been a sprinkling of dull red dots in his wake. When he cleared the forward view, they would shine a hellish blue, bright enough to read by. To the side, the biggest had been visibly flattened. But now there were only stars, white points sparsely scattered across a sky that was mostly black. This was a lonely sky. Dust clouds hid the blazing glory of home.<br/> The light in the center of the view was not a star. It was big as a sun, dark at the center, and bright enough to have burned holes in a man’s retinae. It was the light of a Bussard ramjet, burning a bare eight miles away. Every few years Phssthpok spent some time watching the drive, just to be sure it was burning evenly. A long time ago he had caught a slow, periodic wavering in time to prevent his ship from becoming a tiny nova. But the blue-white light had not changed at all in the weeks he’d been watching it.<br/> |
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Well, the author might have self-published it and not had any professional help. Granted, it's unlikely in the case of Niven.
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According to Wikipedia, Niven's website is http://larryniven.net/ . There's nothing there indicating an electronic version of "Protector" having been released So, I, too, am wondering about the legitimacy of what's on Amazon's site. I reported it on Amazon's book page with one of their reporting links at the bottom of the page. We'll see what happens.
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But this is not self-published. It's stolen and published on Amazon because the thieves can get away with it enough to make some money before it's taken down if it ever is.
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It took Amazon about two weeks and three reports by me (and however many other people reported it), but that Kindle version of "Protector" is finally gone.
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