Top Ten Books Missing as eBooks

[Daithi]

I think they have done a pretty good job of getting older books converted into ebooks, but these are my top 10 books that still don't have an ebook version.

Top Ten Books Missing as eBooks
1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
3. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
6. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
7. The Belgariad by David Eddings (at least no Kindle version)
8. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
9. Magician: Apprentice by Raymond Feist
10. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

Three more Sci-Fi books
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Ringworld by Larry Niven
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (at least no Kindle version)

Three more Fantasy books
The Once and Future King by Terence Hanbury White
On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Three more Mystery books
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers (available here at MR)
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (available here at MR)

Three Plays
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

[caleb72]

Originally Posted by Daithi

I think they have done a pretty good job of getting older books converted into ebooks, but these are my top 10 books that still don't have an ebook version.

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

This is public domain - or at least somewhere it is. There's a copy in our own Mobileread library.

Try this for epub: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=86336
This for your Kindle: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44219

[MrTeatime]

The Once and Future King is available (in the UK, at least).

Ditto for 2001. Geographical restrictions strike again, I suppose :s

[issybird]

The Nine Tailors is also available at MR.

[caleb72]

By the way - I'm completely distraught also that a great deal of Le Guin's works are not available as ebooks: Rocannon's World, The Word for World is Forest, Threshold, the Earthsea books, The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness.

It's a crying shame.

[elemenoP]

You captured the ones I had in mind. Great list!

eP

[Blue Tyson]

Le Guin is certainly a weirdo.

Happy to do bits and pieces at Book View Cafe but won't sell her work?

Very strange.

Is Ringworld Macmillan? If so, you may get it a few seconds before Hell freezes over. Again, of course, one available free at the usual places for years and years.

[Phogg]

Armor ~ John Steakley

[pholy]

Originally Posted by Blue Tyson

Le Guin is certainly a weirdo.

Happy to do bits and pieces at Book View Cafe but won't sell her work?

Very strange.

Alternatively, she may be trying to get her rights reverted so that she can do them herself. That would make sense to me.

I'm a little hesitant to call anyone a weirdo until after I have dealt with them directly and gotten to know them.

[Ken Maltby]

What I find hard to understand are works from authors who are still active and could
be building their readership, if these "Out of ePrint" books were in circulation. (I find
it even harder to live with where a series is only partially available in ebook form.)

Hopefully, we are just going through a transition period, with both advantages and
disadvantages for the consumer. I would hope that authors are getting the message
that they need not let their books go "out of print" and off the market, at the publisher's
option, anymore.

Luck;
Ken

[spellbanisher]

Originally Posted by caleb72

By the way - I'm completely distraught also that a great deal of Le Guin's works are not available as ebooks: Rocannon's World, The Word for World is Forest, Threshold, the Earthsea books, The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness.

It's a crying shame.

The Dispossessed and The Word for World is Forest are available from most ebook stores (at least in the US).

[Blue Tyson]

Originally Posted by pholy

Alternatively, she may be trying to get her rights reverted so that she can do them herself. That would make sense to me.

I'm a little hesitant to call anyone a weirdo until after I have dealt with them directly and gotten to know them.

If she is, then she is really, really terrible at it for someone so prominent given she has had many years to do so.

So weirdly anti-ebook, or incompetent in those two scenarios, one or the other.

[caleb72]

Originally Posted by spellbanisher

The Dispossessed and The Word for World is Forest are available from most ebook stores (at least in the US).

Doesn't look like it's the case for Australians though.



Although Amazon is not always 100% representative for these things, it mostly is.

[Blue Tyson]

Nope. And again, books that have been available for free for many years.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by issybird

The Nine Tailors is also available at MR.

But only for people in countries with a life+50 copyright law, such as Canada. It is, however, available as a legal ebook for everyone else.