Comments on: Publishers Making the Backlist More Accessible

By: Jennybrat

Jennybrat — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:48:22 +0000

Well, Lisa’s schedule doesn’t allow her to answer reader mail so she doesn’t have a contact form. I’ll try St Martin’s Press and see what comes of it.

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:28:56 +0000

Jenny – St Marten’s Press, Kleypas current publisher, rarely puts its books out in ebook format. You probably need to write the author and publisher and tell them that you want ebooks.

By: Jennybrat

Jennybrat — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:07:55 +0000

I find myself disappointed that Sugar Daddy’s ebook was only released in one format (Mobipocket) on selected sites – BOB only carries the audiobook; the ebook was listed on Fictionwise but has now been pulled. It’s also not clear if Mine Til Midnight will be released in ebook. Compare this to Kleypas’s entire Avon backlist being available in a variety of formats and the contrast is stark.

By: Malle

Malle — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:42:09 +0000

To DS: Re one device.

Yes, one affordable device that did it all would be awesome. In the meantime, I use a TREO — it’s great to read eBooks (the screen is sharp and big enough — I am a fast reader and it still works), as my PDA, my cell and I can download music/audiobooks, although I prefer listening from my iPod. One of my colleagues listens to her downloadable audiobooks on the same device and likes it a lot. It’s also a camera.

Don’t know about downloading video.

By: Roslyn

Roslyn — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:23:41 +0000

Alright Michele, perhaps you can leave it to me in your will. I don’t think I’ve ever even SEEN the ones from Playboy Press. I can’t believe Roselynde came out in 1964! That’s the year I was born. Some lucky soul has a special signed hard-back edition of all six. I guess that would cost a kidney and my first-born.

By: Keishon

Keishon — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:55:16 +0000

Ah, too bad. I’ll have to pass. None of her favorites were my favorites. I couldn’t even finish Cinderman. There’s one of hers I’ve been meaning to read, Fallen Angel? I think that’s the title.

By: DS

DS — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:20:13 +0000

Michele replies:

My experiment in selling my OOP backlist as ebooks has beenâ€¦educational. The used book sellers at Amazon appear to be the main beneficiaries, though I’m thinking it’s more an indication of how many readers are still wary of, or disinterested in, buying ebooks.

I’m usually an early adopter but I can’t seem to get into eBooks. Maybe if there was some sort of combination ebook reader, itunes player, cell phone. portable video player, and PDA available it would be easier. I already travel with a brief case full of technology as it is– my actual files go in a plastic collapsable milk crate thing on wheels I bought at Big Lots.

By: DS

DS — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:09:44 +0000

Love Hodgell. Godstalk, Dark of the Moon, Seeker’s Mask (paid a lot for this in the Hypatia edition and then bought it again from Meisha Merlin), To Ride a Rathorne– last one I’ve seen. There is also a short story collection Blood and Ivory.

By: Michele

Michele — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:57:47 +0000

I LOVE those H/S e-bundles! I recently read Caridad PiÃ±eiro's Devotion Calls and realized I'd missed the first three or four books of the series, and I found them all bundled over at eReader. Bliss. Roslyn, I have Alinor -- the original, published by Playboy Press! -- and I'm pretty sure my mother has Roselynde. I need to steal it back... Other old keepers I'd always want around are Jan Cox Speas' My Lord Monleigh, Bride of the MacHugh, and My Love, My Enemy. The author passed away some time back, and if I were to ever lose those books I'd be crushed. Being able to replace them via ebooks would at least be a consolation. My experiment in selling my OOP backlist as ebooks has been...educational. The used book sellers at Amazon appear to be the main beneficiaries, though I'm thinking it's more an indication of how many readers are still wary of, or disinterested in, buying ebooks.

By: Roslyn

Roslyn — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:04:35 +0000

I’d give my left arm for Roberta Gellis’ and Lisa Gregory’s (Candace Camp’s) backlist. I almost paid $300 for Gellis’ Roselynde Chronicles on ebay. Fortunately I came to my senses. I know Harlequin did two reprints, but apparently they made no money so they didn’t do the rest. I’m so frustrated.