Omnibus and collected ebook editions

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Thanks.

But isn't it true that it is legal to download those from, say, an Australian site only if the person is in (and maybe a resident in) that country? If I am in the United States (which I am), wouldn't it would be a violation of U.S. copyright laws to download those from an Australian site? I'm not asking to debate the issue, I'm genuinely asking for information.

Yes, that's correct. Copyright protection depends on where YOU are, not where the file is. It would be a copyright violation for you, in the US, to download the files, regardless of where the files are located, whereas it would be legal for me to do so, because the books are in the UK public domain.

[camiller]

The Divergent Series Complete Collection

ISBN: 9780062292797

Genre: ?

[sufue]

The first three books in the Inspector Montalbano series, by Andrea Camilleri, are available as a collection: The Montalbano Mysteries: Three Crime Novels of Sicily.

The blurb is not very helpful:

Synopsis

The first three irresistible instalments in the Inspector Montalbano series from the bestselling Sicilian author.

However, by peering closely at the cover image, I think I can see that the cover, at least, indicates that this does contain the first three books in the series:

The Shape of Water
The Terra-Cotta Dog
The Snack Thief

I have read most of the books in this series, and have liked them all. They are police procedurals with a tinge of cynicism or world-weariness, which feels a bit like the cynicism in Donna Leon's Brunetti series.

Here's the book info:

Pan Macmillan, October 2012
Imprint: Mantle
ISBN: 9781447219620

It's couponable in Kobo India, and probably some other stores too.

[septentrion]

The Original Dragonprince Trilogy by Aron Pogue - ISBN: 9781497783331

The first two volumes, Taming Fire and The Dragonswarm, tell how Daven rises from humble beginnings as a thief’s son, a beggar, and a shepherd to become a warlord feared by dragons and kings alike. But in the third volume, The Dragonprince’s Heir, we’re introduced to Taryn, Daven’s son. With Daven missing for over a decade, only Taryn can stop a war that will leave the world his father saved in a shambles.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by septentrion

The Original Dragonprince Trilogy by Aron Pogue - ISBN: 9781497783331

The first two volumes, Taming Fire and The Dragonswarm, tell how Daven rises from humble beginnings as a thief’s son, a beggar, and a shepherd to become a warlord feared by dragons and kings alike. But in the third volume, The Dragonprince’s Heir, we’re introduced to Taryn, Daven’s son. With Daven missing for over a decade, only Taryn can stop a war that will leave the world his father saved in a shambles.

The 1st one of the Trilogy "Taming Fire" is also available for free at Amazon at the moment. Amazon US

[OrientalReader]

The Millennium Trilogy By Stieg Larsson
Mystery & Suspense > Thrillers
ISBN: 9781848662292

Synopsis

Together in ebook for the very first time, discover the novels millions of readers worldwide could not put down

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned by the powerful Vanger clan. Her uncle employs disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist and tattooed hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders, they begin to unravel a dark family history...

The Girl Who Played With Fire
Lisbeth Salander is now a wanted woman, on the run from the police. Mikael Blomkvist, editor-in-chief of Millennium magazine, is trying to prove her innocence. Yet Salander is more avenging angel than helpless victim. She may be an expert at staying out of sight – but she has ways of tracking down her most elusive enemies.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
Salander is plotting her final revenge – against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander is ready to fight to the end.

[sufue]

The Malla Nunn Collection #1 includes the first three books in the Emmanuel Cooper mystery series: A Beautiful Place to Die, Let the Dead Lie, and Blessed Are the Dead. The series is set in South Africa. It is couponable in the Kobo Hong Kong store, and probably a few other places. I haven't read this series, so can't say much about it, but the Stop You're Killing Me website shows that a couple of the books in the series have been finalists for various awards.

Here's the book info:

Atria/Emily Bestler Books, June 2013
ISBN: 9781476730738
Language: English

And here's a description:

Synopsis
From award-winning author and filmmaker Malla Nunn, a collection of three riveting crime novels set in 1950s apartheid South Africa.

A Beautiful Place to Die
A stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper—a man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for power make life very dangerous indeed.

Let the Dead Lie
When a young boy is brutally murdered, Detective Cooper is forced out of the shadows and back into service, eluding the Afrikaner police as he conducts his own covert investigation. As the murders continue to pile up, with Cooper perilously close to the scenes, he becomes the police department’s prime suspect.

Blessed Are the Dead
Detective Cooper returns in this powerful, atmospheric novel about two communities forced to confront each other after a murder that exposes their secret ties and forbidden desires in apartheid South Africa.

[OrientalReader]

Charlie Parker Collection - 1 By: John Connolly
Mystery & Suspense
9781444779042

Charlie Parker Collection - 2 By: John Connolly
Mystery & Suspense
9781444779059

[Lynx-lynx]

Delphi Classics Illustrated Complete works of John Buchan from the Kobo Canada store. The full retail price is CAD3.12. (I used a current Contest code and paid a lot less)

ISBN: 9781909496583

Here's the blurb and it contains a listing of all the books contained in the Complete Works - quite substantial!!

Spoiler:

John Buchans shocker adventure novels have entertained readers for over a century and now, for the first time in publishing history, readers can explore the authors complete fictional works in a single collection. This comprehensive eBook presents numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Buchan's life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* ALL 29 novels, with individual contents tables
* Special series contents table for the Richard Hannay and Dickson McCunn novels
* Even includes rare works, like the childrens novel THE MAGIC WALKING-STICK and the authors last novel THE LONG TRAVERSE, appearing here for the first time
* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the novels and other works
* Several novels are illustrated with their original artwork
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry and the short stories
* Easily locate the poems or short stories you want to read
* The complete short stories and poetry, fully indexed in chronological order
* Includes a selection of Buchan's non-fiction, including his celebrated biographies on Sir Walter Scott, Lord Minto and King George V
* Features Buchans rare autobiography, published shortly after his death - explore Buchan's literary life!
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

CONTENTS:
The Richard Hannay Series
The Dickson McCunn Trilogy
The Novels
SIR QUIXOTE OF THE MOORS
JOHN BURNET OF BARNS
A LOST LADY OF OLD YEARS
THE HALF-HEARTED
A LODGE IN THE WILDERNESS
PRESTER JOHN
THE POWER-HOUSE
THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS
SALUTE TO ADVENTURERS
GREENMANTLE
MR STANDFAST
THE PATH OF A KING
HUNTINGTOWER
MIDWINTER
THE THREE HOSTAGES
JOHN MACNAB
THE GODDESS FROM THE SHADES
WITCH WOOD
THE MAGIC WALKING-STICK
THE COURTS OF THE MORNING
CASTLE GAY
THE BLANKET OF THE DARK
THE GAP IN THE CURTAIN
A PRINCE OF THE CAPTIVITY
THE FREE FISHERS
THE HOUSE OF THE FOUR WINDS
THE ISLAND OF SHEEP
SICK HEART RIVER
THE LONG TRAVERSE

The Short Stories
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

The Poetry
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

Selected Non-Fiction
THE AFRICAN COLONY
A BOOK OF ESCAPES AND HURRIED JOURNEYS
LORD MINTO: A MEMOIR
MONTROSE: A HISTORY
SIR WALTER SCOTT
THE KINGS GRACE

The Autobiography
MEMORY HOLD-THE-DOOR

Sony Reader for PC version of the Complete Works shows that it is 12,010 pages!!

Edit
Amazon AU UK CA and US also have this Omnibus collection - all for similar prices as above.

[Dr. Drib]

Thanks for the info on the Buchan title.

It looks like the US version is much abbreviated, due to copyright reasons. The US edition has only 3,689 pages.

ADDED: It appears as if Kobo (UK) is the more complete edition.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Thanks for the info on the Buchan title.

It looks like the US version is much abbreviated, due to copyright reasons. The US edition has only 3,689 pages.

ADDED: It appears as if Kobo (UK) is the more complete edition.

Buchan is in the public domain in "life+70" countries. His post-1923 work is of course not in the US public domain.

[Lynx-lynx]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Thanks for the info on the Buchan title.

It looks like the US version is much abbreviated, due to copyright reasons. The US edition has only 3,689 pages.

ADDED: It appears as if Kobo (UK) is the more complete edition.

Curiously the page count on my Glo is only 8987, and it is exactly the same book that has over 12000 pages when viewed in Sony Reader for PC.

[sufue]

There are about a million (well, quite a few) Mills & Boon e-Book Collections (romance novels) available in the Kobo Singapore store. Just search on "Mills Boon Collections", and bunches and bunches pop up.

Just in a sad side commentary on the Kobo suggestion engine - I was searching for a good basic text on biochemistry and two of these collections were among the results . Or maybe, I guess, good (bio)chemistry is needed to have a good romance...

I tested three or four without actually purchasing, and all appeared to be couponable in Singapore with the ubiquitous PERKOPOLIS. Don't know about elsewhere - I didn't check.

[sufue]

The Rafferty and Llewellyn Mystery Series Boxed Set contains the first four books in the mystery series by Geraldine Evans.

The four books are:

• Dead Before Morning, #1
• Down Among the Dead Men, #2
• Death Line, #3
• The Hanging Tree, #4

The boxed set is couponable in Kobo Singapore with PERKOPOLIS, and probably other Kobo stores, although at $4.39 it's already a pretty good deal.

Descriptions:

Spoiler:

DEAD BEFORE MORNING
British Detective Joe Rafferty and his partner, Sergeant Dafyd Llewellyn in a murder mystery involving the killing of a young woman bludgeoned beyond recognition, with no ID and found in a secure place to which she supposedly had no admission. Who is she? How has she gained access? And who was responsible for her murder? These are just a few of the questions the detective duo must answer in this first novel in the cozy mystery series. With difficulties besetting them on all sides, including their own superintendent and a media that has decided to adopt the case of the 'Faceless Lady' as their own personal crusade for justice, newly-promoted Inspector Rafferty has something to prove.

DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN
British Detectives Joe Rafferty and his partner, Dafyd Llewellyn, in their second murder mystery investigation, set out to discover who killed Barbara Longman, a woman with no known enemies. But when it soon becomes apparent that the murder has been committed by someone who must have known the victim well, the police investigation shifts to the victim's family, the wealthy and influential Shores. Rafferty suspects that Charles Shore, not a man known to forgive failure, will use his influence to damage Rafferty's career should he fail to find the murderer.

DEATH LINE
Third novel in the Rafferty & Llewellyn mystery series, Death Line sees the detective duo trying to solve the murder mystery, with his own crystal ball, of the famed 'seer', Jasper Moon. Gradually it becomes clear that Jasper Moon was a man of many parts, not all of them very savoury. Moon was a wealthy man but seems to have written no will; certainly, Detectives Rafferty and Llewellyn can't find it. In a case involving as many twists and turns as a snake avoiding capture, the detective duo must take their murder investigation back through the years to the victim's youth to answer that question: 'Who did it?'. And Rafferty fears that after such a long time, the evidence their murder inquiry needs will no longer be there to find.

THE HANGING TREE
Fourth novel in the Rafferty & Llewellyn mystery series. This murder mystery involves the detective pair in the case of the vanishing hanged man. But when the hanged man turns up in Dedman Woods for a second time, the British detectives are able to confirm that he is a man many had reason to hate. Because Maurice Smith, charged years earlier with four child rapes, had escaped on a legal technicality. Detective Rafferty feels ambivalent about the case from the start. Not sure his desire to solve it is strong enough, he has to fight the feeling that natural justice, in winning out against the judicial sort, has right on its side. The punishment has, in his book, fitted the crime. As the usual police procedure continues towards an unwanted conclusion, Rafferty, caught between the law and his own sense of morality, feels this is an investigation that could cause him to demand his own resignation as a detective.

These are backlist titles now self-pubbed by the author, but all were published many years ago in DTB. I myself haven't read any in this series, but am now going to try the first four, at least!

Book info:
Publisher: Geraldine Evans, July 2014
ISBN: 9781501484834

[MobileJanie]

Originally Posted by sufue

The Rafferty and Llewellyn Mystery Series Boxed Set contains the first four books in the mystery series by Geraldine Evans.

I almost bought it but realised just in time it isn't an epub, and despite numerous hints and subtle suggestions I haven't been able to convert a kepub into anything I am able to read.

Still, sufue, thanks for the recommendation - I haven't read any of her books, so will look out for them in some format I can read.