Books you gave up on ever being ebooks

[pwalker8]

Originally Posted by HarryT

The US is a signatory to the Berne Convention, which requires a minimum copyright term of life + 50 years.

Perhaps, but in the US, the Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Treaties can be repudiated. It happens all the time.

[HarryT]

We are straying from the subject of the thread. I suggest starting a new thread if you want to continue the discussion.

[ElspethB]

I would love to have a favorite trilogy of my childhood in ebook form: Mary O'Hara's My Friend Flicka and the follow-up novels Thunderhead and The Green Grass of Wyoming. I remember buying My Friend Flicka from a book fair at my school when I was a horse-crazy 10-year-old and later found the other two novels as well. I read and re-read my battered old paperbacks until they fell apart. Every six months or so I check Amazon to see if they are available and I'm always disappointed. I keep clicking the "Tell the Publisher! I'd like to read this book on Kindle" link but to no avail so far. Thunderhead and Green Grass appear to be out of print so I don't hold out much hope. I may have to take matters into my own hands and create my own ebooks.

[dandelioncottage]

I would love to have the Flicka books as ebooks too.

Originally Posted by ElspethB

I would love to have a favorite trilogy of my childhood in ebook form: Mary O'Hara's My Friend Flicka and the follow-up novels Thunderhead and The Green Grass of Wyoming. I remember buying My Friend Flicka from a book fair at my school when I was a horse-crazy 10-year-old and later found the other two novels as well. I read and re-read my battered old paperbacks until they fell apart. Every six months or so I check Amazon to see if they are available and I'm always disappointed. I keep clicking the "Tell the Publisher! I'd like to read this book on Kindle" link but to no avail so far. Thunderhead and Green Grass appear to be out of print so I don't hold out much hope. I may have to take matters into my own hands and create my own ebooks.

[Dopedangel]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Will you please define property?
Yes a book is property.
Intellectual property. So art you saying that an author or their estate should give their property away because it might benefit the public? And that the estate shouldn't benefit
Well in that case, a residence could benefit the public.
Should one give their property away to benefit someone else?
Books are no different from a house.
But you do not see a house being given away because the owner died.
But you are saying that someone's hard work should be given away because they are dead.

Well most assetts depreciate they have a shelf life rarely is it more than 50 years if they don't ie land they usually have to be released if it is freehold you still have to pay property tax yearly. Capital gains tax when you sell it.
If all artistic works had a similar tax system where you have to pay money to keep the rights instead of just upping the time period. Orphan work and unutilized rights will stop either the owner will try to exploit the rights to cover tax cost or let it become public to stop recurring costs.

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[pwalker8]

Originally Posted by Dopedangel

Well most assetts depreciate they have a shelf life rarely is it more than 50 years if they don't ie land they usually have to be released if it is freehold you still have to pay property tax yearly. Capital gains tax when you sell it.
If all artistic works had a similar tax system where you have to pay money to keep the rights instead of just upping the time period. Orphan work and unutilized rights will stop either the owner will try to exploit the rights to cover tax cost or let it become public to stop recurring costs.

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works for me.

[cadele]

Originally Posted by cadele

I have Lisanne Norman's Turning Point (Sholan Alliance book 1) and the later ones in the series, but very annoyingly there is a gap of about 4 books after the first one. Drat that publisher

All is forgiven, Daw Books!

They are starting to release the missing books. I just bought Fire Margins and the final two missing books are available for preorder at Kobo.

[crossi]

Still waiting for:
Eddings books to reappear in the US.
Louise Cooper's Time's Master triology (the last is available, not the first two)
Loiuse Cooper's Chaos Gate triology
Margaret Mahy's The Changeover
Crawford Killian's Brother Jonathan and Lifter

[orangekiwi]

Originally Posted by cadele

All is forgiven, Daw Books!

They are starting to release the missing books. I just bought Fire Margins and the final two missing books are available for preorder at Kobo.

Yay! thanks so much for posting this, I having been waiting to fill this gap in Lisanne Norman's ebooks for ages and had given up hope.

Now I'm just waiting for Nick O'Donohoe's Crossroads series especially The magic and the healing, although I fear this will never be an ebook as the series wasn't that popular

[pwalker8]

Originally Posted by crossi

Still waiting for:
Eddings books to reappear in the US.
Louise Cooper's Time's Master triology (the last is available, not the first two)
Loiuse Cooper's Chaos Gate triology
Margaret Mahy's The Changeover
Crawford Killian's Brother Jonathan and Lifter

With regards to the Eddings books, I am fortunate in that I have a friend who lives in the UK who will buy UK only books for me. There are, of course, other ways around that restriction.

I have the Time Master's trilogy in paper. Cooper seems to be the sort of author who would benefit a lot by putting her books out as ebooks, but I see that she died back in 2009. I've found that heirs are rarely as aggressive about moving books to ebooks as the original authors. I, too, would like to get those two trilogies in ebooks.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by crossi

Still waiting for:
Eddings books to reappear in the US.
Louise Cooper's Time's Master triology (the last is available, not the first two)
Loiuse Cooper's Chaos Gate triology
Margaret Mahy's The Changeover
Crawford Killian's Brother Jonathan and Lifter

I live in Spain, so I've been lucky for once with David Eddings'. But I'm waiting for Louise Cooper's too.

[GlennD]

Mundania Press has a number of Louise Cooper's books in PDF format, if that's adequate for your needs, including the Time Master and Chaos Gate trilogies.

She was publishing with them before she passed away; they publish both electronically and in dead tree format. (I've been considering getting them myself, but don't know a reliable method of converting from a protected PDF to something more useful.)

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by GlennD

She was publishing with them before she passed away; they publish both electronically and in dead tree format. (I've been considering getting them myself, but don't know a reliable method of converting from a protected PDF to something more useful.)

Using a decent OCR program such as Abbyy Finereader is generally the best way, although personally I'm happy to read PDFs on my iPad.

[Stingo]

Ezra Pound - The Cantos.

[haydnfan]

The Eddings novels are slowly being republished at a rate of 1-2 per month. I would like to reread the Belgariad for the sake of nostalgia. 3 out of the 5 books are on Kindle now. I'm hoping that before winter ends books 4 and 5 will be on Kindle as well.