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Old 08-17-2012, 05:59 PM   #1021
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Expecting errors? What? Is Baen publishing it?
Given the nature of digital publishing there's really no reason for typos to be in a book on the release date. At most a couple of days past release errors should be fixed from reader feedback and purchasers notified that a corrected version is available to download.

Publishers still are not taking full advantage of digital publishing. For example in "Sentry Peak" by Baen every instance of the name of the mountain, including in the book's title, metadata and info on the website was spelled "Sentry Peek". The only one who got it right was the cover artist.

Baen had not a clue it was wrong until I sent them an e-mail. How does such a gaffe make it past every level of checking?
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Old 08-25-2012, 10:45 PM   #1022
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No word of the eBook on November 27 though.
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True, but I would be surprised it if weren't made available the same day. My biggest concern is cost.
Amazon and B&N offer eBook ($14.99) as well as the hardback.
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Amazon and B&N offer eBook ($14.99) as well as the hardback.
Thank you for the links, Alan. I've just pre-ordered the Kindle version! Yay!
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Old 08-26-2012, 07:04 AM   #1024
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Thank you for the links, Alan. I've just pre-ordered the Kindle version! Yay!
You don't mind paying full price and you don't want to be part of the buy Cold Days for cheap group?
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You don't mind paying full price and you don't want to be part of the buy Cold Days for cheap group?
Normally $15 is out of my price range. I usually will not pay more than $10 (and even that's only for have-to-haves), but this has become one of my favorite series to date, so I don't mind as much.
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Normally $15 is out of my price range. I usually will not pay more than $10 (and even that's only for have-to-haves), but this has become one of my favorite series to date, so I don't mind as much.
At least get the ePub so you can fix the errors easily. Yes, I do expect there to be errors given how some of the eBooks in the series have been released.
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Old 08-26-2012, 11:50 AM   #1027
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Thank you for the links, Alan. I've just pre-ordered the Kindle version! Yay!
Yea, thanks. I just pre-ordered as well. A $4.00 discount for ebooks from the hardback price and still people complain.
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Old 08-26-2012, 10:13 PM   #1028
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Yea, thanks. I just pre-ordered as well. A $4.00 discount for ebooks from the hardback price and still people complain.
That's because it's a rip-off. The hardcover has a 34% discount while the eBook has no discount with no possible discount. This is the fun of agency.

I understand how the BPH handles print. They charge based on the container. But an eBook doesn't have a container that changes. So set the price appropriately and stop ripping us off.
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I understand how the BPH handles print. They charge based on the container.
They really don't. Maybe they sell us on paying the price based partly on the "prestige" format, but the main selling point of a hardcover is the same as a movie ticket: first release.
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They really don't. Maybe they sell us on paying the price based partly on the "prestige" format, but the main selling point of a hardcover is the same as a movie ticket: first release.
But they have different price points for different print formats/containers. Once an eBook is done, it's in that format/container and that version it isn't going to change.
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HARRY DRESDEN LIVES!!!

After being murdered by a mystery assailant, navigating his way through the realm between life and death, and being brought back to the mortal world, Harry realizes that maybe death wasn’t all that bad. Because he is no longer Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard.

He is now Harry Dresden, Winter Knight to Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness. After Harry had no choice but to swear his fealty, Mab wasn’t about to let something as petty as death steal away the prize she had sought for so long. And now, her word is his command, no matter what she wants him to do, no matter where she wants him to go, and no matter who she wants him to kill.

Guess which Mab wants first?

Of course, it won’t be an ordinary, everyday assassination. Mab wants her newest minion to pull off the impossible: kill an immortal. No problem there, right? And to make matters worse, there exists a growing threat to an unfathomable source of magic that could land Harry in the sort of trouble that will make death look like a holiday.

Beset by enemies new and old, Harry must gather his friends and allies, prevent the annihilation of countless innocents, and find a way out of his eternal subservience before his newfound powers claim the only thing he has left to call his own…His soul.

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So did I.

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What is it Jim Butcher has against eBooks from B&N? The ePub from B&N is available for pre-order and yet there's no link.
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