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Will Planet Stories ever adopt an ebook format? I'm not talking PDFs here like the Pathfinder stuff, but legitimate ebook distribution.
they've said that the contracts for the early books did not include digital formats (of any kind). Who knows what Mona and Sutter are cooking up for future releases.. I think it would depend on the author though
Kirstov is correct that there are many books we do not currently have digital rights to. That said, we're definitely interested in getting Planet Stories e-books up and running... it's just going to take some time.
As a Baen fan, and a follower of e-books since Bookeen first hit the market with the Cybook... I seriously suggest that once you do start offering E-books... make the EPUB format available... despite amazon's big run with the kindle the .epub is looking to come out on top compared to the .mobi for the industry standard.
I'd defintely like to have e-books... My Cybook is no where near full... where as my walls are running out of places for built-in and movable shelves... and they'd be competing with my gaming books.
Also, PF books might be nice to have in .epubs or .mobis...
Although, to be honest... I'd almost rather Paizo go in with Baen for electronic rights than compete with them for it... webscriptions is a great format for things... and they already have a good background in setting something like that up. They already do distribution for other small publishers as well. RPG material is something they lack... (the 1632 rpg book was horridly done, and I feel bad for Eric Flint... even though he supported it...) So it's very much a area where perhaps two companies that do individual things really well could work together instead of trying to compete... especially when both companies would be trying to compete in a area that's not their primary.
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Although, to be honest... I'd almost rather Paizo go in with Baen for electronic rights than compete with them for it... webscriptions is a great format for things... and they already have a good background in setting something like that up. They already do distribution for other small publishers as well. RPG material is something they lack... (the 1632 rpg book was horridly done, and I feel bad for Eric Flint... even though he supported it...) So it's very much a area where perhaps two companies that do individual things really well could work together instead of trying to compete... especially when both companies would be trying to compete in a area that's not their primary.
+1
Well done e-book versions of the Pathfinder stuff is something I would pay again for, rather than use badly converted PDF.
I'm seriously looking into buying an eReader in the coming year, so this is a topic that interests me. If I can make a suggestion, please consider using the ebook format to distribute short stories/novellas rather than just novel length works. For instance, I've purchased a number of Larry Niven's short fantasy short stories for around $1 apiece for my iPhone's Kindle reader. While I like collections in the published format (such as Robots Have No Tails), I like the ability to cheaply explore different authors through this new publishing format.
Rest assured, we are looking into this.
Now that I have an ebook reader,I won't bug you about Ray Cummings any more...I now have most of the ones I wanted...free too...Project Gutenberg! (I much prefer the ebook reader to a real book btw...you can see the type better for a start) But I'll ask again for John Russell Fearn. Come on,'The Golden Amazon' series. I'd definitely buy that!!
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You should check out Gryphon Books. They have published a seemingly impossible amount of Fearn. Last time I was at Uncle Hugo's sci-fi bookshop in Minneapolis, they must have had about four dozen different titles, including tons of Golden Amazon novels.
I think many of them may be as old as the mid-80s. For all I know they are hard to find, but Uncle Hugo's has TONs of them.
And, as you will soon discover, after a while almost all Ray Cummings novels sort of seem like the exact same story told over and over again.
You should check out Gryphon Books. They have published a seemingly impossible amount of Fearn. Last time I was at Uncle Hugo's sci-fi bookshop in Minneapolis, they must have had about four dozen different titles, including tons of Golden Amazon novels.
I think many of them may be as old as the mid-80s. For all I know they are hard to find, but Uncle Hugo's has TONs of them.
And, as you will soon discover, after a while almost all Ray Cummings novels sort of seem like the exact same story told over and over again.
Ok cool,thanks for the tip. Yes,Fearn was VERY prolific(he had several pseudonyms too). It's pretty hard to find any of his stuff here though,I've been looking for them in second hand shops for years. Now,that's a BIT harsh about Ray!! I've read quite a few of his books and I don't think he was any more 'samey' than most of his contemporaries ;)
Ok cool,thanks for the tip. Yes,Fearn was VERY prolific(he had several pseudonyms too). It's pretty hard to find any of his stuff here though,I've been looking for them in second hand shops for years. Now,that's a BIT harsh about Ray!! I've read quite a few of his books and I don't think he was any more 'samey' than most of his contemporaries ;)You should check out Gryphon Books. They have published a seemingly impossible amount of Fearn. Last time I was at Uncle Hugo's sci-fi bookshop in Minneapolis, they must have had about four dozen different titles, including tons of Golden Amazon novels.
I think many of them may be as old as the mid-80s. For all I know they are hard to find, but Uncle Hugo's has TONs of them.
And, as you will soon discover, after a while almost all Ray Cummings novels sort of seem like the exact same story told over and over again.
Well,I still like most of the Ray Cummings stories I've read,but after reading 'Aerita of The Light Country',I concede you may be right! One of the lamest things I have ever managed to finish. A while ago on here you were talking about publishing the 'Tama of The Light Country' stories...they're pretty cool,but if you do publish them,I would strongly advise not including 'Aerita' with them!