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Old 05-03-2009, 08:01 PM   #61
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Big update: I revamped the spreadsheet (not uploaded yet) with three new awards: Philip K. Dick, Clarke, Locus. The spreadsheet grew to 643 books.

This month saw a loss of Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky", and preorders for the following came up:

"Reclamation" by Sarah Zettel (nominee, PKD 1996)
"Gloriana" by Michael Moorcock (winner, World Fanasy 1979)

And actually available is "The Silmarillion"


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This month saw a loss of Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky"
It is still available in eReader and LIT formats (ebookprice.info), but not in MOBI and no longer at the Kindle Store.
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Dugbug, I love it that you do this. Please keep it up. But you'll be happy (I hope) to hear that I think you missed a few titles for the Kindle. I downloaded your latest spreadsheet and started searching the Sony site as I had done last October (see post #7 in this thread). As I searched, I was finding that there were titles at Sony but you said were not at Amazon which surprised me. So I manually checked those at Amazon and found a total of 16 more titles for the Kindle. I think perhaps some of your searches are little off. I found titles for Kurt Vonnegut (not Vonnegut, Jr.), another author was slightly misspelled, etc. You'll find the comments in column E of the attached spreadsheet for the 16 that I found. But I only searched for titles at Amazon if your spreadsheet said it wasn't there AND I had found them at Sony. So there may be more than 16.

From the 437 titles in the spreadsheet, Amazon has 133 of them (30.4%) and Sony has 98 of them (22.4%). Amazon had 37 titles that Sony did not. Sony had 2 titles that Amazon did not. That's about typical for Sony. Be happy you own a Kindle.

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Sony had 2 titles that Amazon did not.
These are Picoverse Robert A. Metzger, available in every DRMed format except MOBI and Kindle, and Moving Mars Greg Bear, available in multiformat from FictionWise and also from OverDrive (Books on Board) as a MOBI or ePub or LIT. Many Greg Bear titles are available at FictionWise as multiformat ebooks that will work "as is" on the Kindle. The only one in the spreadsheet missing from FictionWise and the Kindle Store is The Forge of God.

By the way, I am liking ebookprice.info more and more as a search engine for ebooks.
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thanks for the comments I haven't updated the spreadsheet yet, but greatly expanded the awards being covered. Its up to 685 books or something. I should really re-upload but I've been procrastinating Also with the newly expanded awards set comes a slightly different top-15 author score that I also have not updated.

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Dugbug, I love it that you do this. Please keep it up. But you'll be happy (I hope) to hear that I think you missed a few titles for the Kindle. I downloaded your latest spreadsheet and started searching the Sony site as I had done last October (see post #7 in this thread). As I searched, I was finding that there were titles at Sony but you said were not at Amazon which surprised me. So I manually checked those at Amazon and found a total of 16 more titles for the Kindle. I think perhaps some of your searches are little off. I found titles for Kurt Vonnegut (not Vonnegut, Jr.), another author was slightly misspelled, etc. You'll find the comments in column E of the attached spreadsheet for the 16 that I found. But I only searched for titles at Amazon if your spreadsheet said it wasn't there AND I had found them at Sony. So there may be more than 16.

From the 437 titles in the spreadsheet, Amazon has 133 of them (30.4%) and Sony has 98 of them (22.4%). Amazon had 37 titles that Sony did not. Sony had 2 titles that Amazon did not. That's about typical for Sony. Be happy you own a Kindle.

Keep up the good work!
Oh, it's probably not his searches. Amazon's search tool is buggy as all get out "and" there is not sufficient quality control in their item inventory tagging process. I spent a few hours one night testing it after I'd gotten contradictory results from a search and pretty much figured out what was wrong. (Much debugging of inventory management software in my youth. Programmers often do the same things) And sent off some results to them and actually had a dialogue explaining what was wrong with it. Eventually a systems guy called me on the phone and found the problem and indicated that they would fix it in a later build. Which they did. But heh, they caused a different problem which still exists as of last week.

Try your searches a couple different ways, you'll see what I mean.

heh, I know this sounds like I think I'm "all that" but I'm not, I've just done a lot of it and seen so much of what's possible to do wrong. :P
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Updates this month...
We gained three books:

Moonfall by Jack McDevitt (1998 Nebula nominee)
Silver Screen by Justina Robson (2005 Philip K. Dick Nominee)
River of Gods by Ian McDonald (2005 Hugo nominee)

And for some reason, amazon dropped Pournelle as co-author of Inferno by accident. This is one of the reasons I always double-check the auotmated searches.

Im going to update the spreadsheet attachment to the main post so everyone can get the latest info so noone confuses this with bad or old searches.

also, as an aside, I just read Spin by Robert Charles Wilson. Outstanding... its on the pricey side of $9.00 but its one of those smart, imaginative Sci-Fi page turners that when you get to the last page you want more.


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Old 07-26-2009, 04:18 PM   #70
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Updates for this month

Added:
"Tooth and Claw" by Jo Walton (winner, World Fantasy 2004)
"A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge (Winner, Hugo 2000 Nominated, Nebula 1999)

And contining the odd trend of store removals...
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"Solitaire" by Kelley Eskridge
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Old 08-06-2009, 06:35 AM   #72
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From a response by CJ Cherryh in I need some secret agents…

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There’s a story behind the dwindling number of e-books of mine out there. Some years ago there was a company called Peanut Press that contracted with DAW to do some e-books. I received a few hundred dollars for this, and then Peanut sold itself to an entity that then sold pieces of itself (as I understand) multiple times, or divided itself multiple times, each piece thinking it had all these rights.

Now, it seemed to me that I should be paid for the books they were selling. DAW thought it should be paid, too. So the Penguin legal guys that represent DAW as well as Penguin got on the case and sent out some cease and desist letters, which appear to have hit the target. Books are vanishing from Kindle and Fictionwise
This is interesting, because it suggests that the Orwell/1984 situation, where Amazon belated discovered it was selling books it didn't have the rights to, wasn't the first of its kind. It makes me wonder if they specifically chose to delete the Orwell books from user's Kindles as an experiment to see what the reaction would be. (Answer: Not Good)
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Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection (the most recent edition, for 2008) has just been released as a Kindle book, and there's a bit of a funny story about the price.

I'm signed up with Mysteria to let me know when books on my Amazon wish list become available as Kindle books. They notified me on Aug. 13 that Years Best #26 was available. So I hop on over to Amazon and promptly choke on my latte when I see the price: $32.00! This is compared to the paperback price of $14.93 and the hardcover price of $26.40. So I mutter curses and go to Zoolert, where you can sign up to be notified when a particular Kindle book's price falls below some amount that you set. I set my "tracking price" to $20.00 -- still too high, but not insane. The very next day, Zoolert got back to me with a notification that the price of this book had gone below the amount I set. In fact, it had gone down to $9.99, where it remains.

So I guess the moral of the story is that Amazon sometimes does funny things with Kindle book prices, and that the Zoolert service (free) is a good idea if you see a price that looks out of line.
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Ahhh the amazon book monkeys have worked hard this month. We lost two books:

The Robots Of Dawn (Asimov)
Saturn Returns (S Williams)

(why do we loose books anyway)


But we gained quite a bit:

Ragamuffin by Tobias Buckell (Nebula nominee 2007)
Farthing by Jo Walton (Nebula nominee 2006)
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow (Nebula Nominee 2004)
Empire of Bones by Liz Williams (Philip K Dick nominee 2002)
The Collapsium by Wil McCarthy (Nebula nominee 2001)
Typhon's Children by Toni Anzetti (Philip K. Dick nominee 1999)
Bone Dance by Emma Bull (Hugo nominee 1992)
Startide Rising by David Brin (Hugo winner 1984, Locus winner 1984)
Thorns by Robert Silverberg (Hugo nominee 1968)
A Plague of Demons by Keith Laumer (Nebula nominee 1965)
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (Hugo winner 1961)

Yes, Canticle is back. Hopefully this one is not stuck in "large print" mode.



Just another pitch on an impressive book: check out Spin by Robert Charles Wilson.
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