Pathfinder Tales hard to find sequel in series in webstore.


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I like the pathfinder tales novels. I purchased but in the online store and with more and more novels finding the next book with the same characters in the series like the next the sort views for novels while working for rpg books I am not sure this is the best. If I want the next book in the series and new books are still coming out so this will only get messier.


If it were possible to search by author somehow, that would be useful also. (And would address the OP's issue to a significant degree).

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this link is updated until August of this year.. You should also be able to click on a books name to go to its page to see an info box with the list of books in that series under it. See here to see the varian and radovan list.

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I agree. I've got some ideas of how to improve the Tales portion of the webstore, and will watch this thread for any suggestions folks come up with :)


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Chris Lambertz wrote:
and will watch this thread for any suggestions folks come up with :)

In the interim, until there's a good solution for this DAVE GROSS issue, you could edit the product description for Ye RandomBooke That Doth Number One to include a hyperlink to DAVE GROSS Ye RandomeBooke That Doth Number One More Than Its Prequel. You could then put a reciprocal hyperlink in the second one's description to the first DAVE GROSS. Should an author be so DAVE GROSS bold as to produce a third work, yes, you'd have a flurry of editing to do to DAVE GROSS them, adding a total of four hyperlinks. This could not scale indefinitely, but unless you DAVE GROSS have a problem author, it should work for a while.

Incidentally, since we're on the topic of the Tales line, anything in the works by oh... say... James Sutter? Or, I guess... DAVE GROSS? <Grin> I admit I've been kind of neglecting paying any attention to the line since last year's changes, because, well, all of the reasons a bunch of people checked out of that hotel.

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Anguish wrote:


Incidentally, since we're on the topic of the Tales line, anything in the works by oh... say... James Sutter? Or, I guess... DAVE GROSS? <Grin> I admit I've been kind of neglecting paying any attention to the line since last year's changes, because, well, all of the reasons a bunch of people checked out of that hotel.

We're always scheming. :) Right now the big news for me is that Death's Heretic is free on Audible until next week at audible.com/deathsheretic. But in terms of what's coming up in the line, I've actually got some new (to us) authors coming up that I'm really stoked about, as well as new books from folks like Chris Jackson, Tim Pratt, and Liane Merciel. It's a pretty exciting time for the line. :)

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Chris Lambertz wrote:
I agree. I've got some ideas of how to improve the Tales portion of the webstore, and will watch this thread for any suggestions folks come up with :)

Similar to the adventure finder, there could be a breakdown of books by region.


James Sutter wrote:
We're always scheming. :) Right now the big news for me is that Death's Heretic is free on Audible until next week at audible.com/deathsheretic.

Cool. As it happens, one of my group picked that up last week and messaged me that he was enjoying it. He'd not touched a audio book before and was happy with the book itself, and the format.

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But in terms of what's coming up in the line, I've actually got some new (to us) authors coming up that I'm really stoked about, as well as new books from folks like Chris Jackson, Tim Pratt, and Liane Merciel. It's a pretty exciting time for the line. :)

Honestly - and I'm not trying to reopen wounds, just explain myself - while I'm not by any means poor, the line has priced itself out of my "experimentation zone". I haven't picked up Dave's latest yet, though I see there are some reasonably priced used copies now, so I may do that. I'd be sore tempted to break my wallet-embargo for another Salim story. Also, maybe if Robin Laws revisited the crew from the Worldwound Gambit. Otherwise, sheer author cachet isn't going to suck me in as things are.

See, even good/great authors have variance in what they write. This is how we manage to have favorite books by favorite authors. Some stories and characters are just superior to others. So as an additional factor to filtering by author, when there are series, I know that I already like a plot arc or character set. So that increases value. A third Salim book by some guy named Sutter has much more value in my experience than any first Pathfinder book by say... Weiss & Hickman. That isn't hyperbole... it's fact personal to me.

The physical books are priced about 10-20% more than they should be here in Canada. That may be because they're nearly trade sized now, but that's not a feature for me. The e-books are priced about 30% more than I'd consider reasonable. This, not mentioning that my time to strip Amazon's DRM is valuable. <Note: my e-reader doesn't support the Kindle .satan file format so I have to either buy a reader I don't want, or be a criminal.> Both of those are numbers based on "experimentation". Non-experimental (Sutter/Gross) books... as mentioned, have more value. To me.

Anyway, hopefully that's in some way useful to you. I'm a book-lover, with - opens his digital book inventory system, and no, isn't kidding about doing so - an even 850 paperback/trade/hardcover sci-fi/fantasy books on display in 34 linear feet of book shelves in my gaming room. That's not at all counting stuff like Pathfinder RPG books and the like, and it doesn't include a few linear feet of shelves of my wife's books. So I kind of know how to blow money on books. I like to. I have a bunch that I've never read because I only bought the physical book to put on the shelf after reading the epub.

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Feedback is always useful! Not all of our choices will work for everyone, but it still helps us to know folks' tastes and reasons. And the fact that you'd buy a Salim book over a Weis and Hickman novel is a pretty huge compliment, so thank you. :)

The prices at the moment are set by necessity, but as far as the DRM goes, there are definitely options other than Kindle format—do places like Barnes & Noble, the iBookstore, etc. work any better for you?

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James Sutter wrote:
Anguish wrote:


Incidentally, since we're on the topic of the Tales line, anything in the works by oh... say... James Sutter? Or, I guess... DAVE GROSS? <Grin> I admit I've been kind of neglecting paying any attention to the line since last year's changes, because, well, all of the reasons a bunch of people checked out of that hotel.
We're always scheming. :) Right now the big news for me is that Death's Heretic is free on Audible until next week at audible.com/deathsheretic. But in terms of what's coming up in the line, I've actually got some new (to us) authors coming up that I'm really stoked about, as well as new books from folks like Chris Jackson, Tim Pratt, and Liane Merciel. It's a pretty exciting time for the line. :)

Been meaning to ask any news on when Zae appleslayer and co will be back? Know a story was being written with them but havent heard much for a while.


James Sutter wrote:
as far as the DRM goes, there are definitely options other than Kindle format—do places like Barnes & Noble, the iBookstore, etc. work any better for you?

Huh. I thought only Amazon was carrying the line now. Turns out B&N uses ePub, which is a} DRM-free and b} my preferred format. So that's actually really nice to have an option to vote against restrictive proprietary formats with my wallet. I don't have time right at the moment to really investigate pricing comparison (B&N looks to be in USD while Amazon.ca is CDN) so that's still a factor, but as you say, a different one.

So, thanks in general; that's one issue resolved.

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Anguish wrote:
Huh. I thought only Amazon was carrying the line now.

If you look at the latest product descriptions for the catalog of Pathfinder Tales novels (save some of the more recently solicited ones), you'll find direct links to digital formats available on Amazon, iTunes, B&N, eBooks.com, Google Play, and Kobo :)

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Kevin Mack wrote:


Been meaning to ask any news on when Zae appleslayer and co will be back? Know a story was being written with them but havent heard much for a while.

The slayer of apples and co will indeed return! Fear not and have patience. Their novel is forthcoming. :)


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There's this page which helps keep track of the reading order and relationships between the novels and the now sadly discontinued webfiction. I'm not sure how up to date it is though.

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