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Robert Jordan now available in ebook form!
October 26, 2009 | 7:45 pm
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By Paul Biba
With the pending release of the new Robert Jordan Wheel of Time installment, I have been thinking about re-reading all the previous volumes. I’ve been deterred, however, by the size and weight of them – a lot of them are really uncomfortable to hold or carry around. No ebook versions have been available.
Now, reader asphalt sent me an email to let me know that the first volume, He found out about it from theArtDepartment blog. The Eye of the World, will be available on Tuesday in Kindle format. I checked with Amazon and this is indeed correct. It is available for $9.99. Neither Fictionwise nor Sony are offering it as of today. I’m going to pre-order it as soon as I finish this post – even if it has a really ugly cover. I hope the rest come out soon, the Amazon blurb says nothing about this.
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$9.99 for the ebook.
$6.99 for the paperback
What a shame. Greed and idiot publishing houses win out once again. It’s topped by crappy artwork as well. Let’s just hope that there are no typos. (Although that’s likely asking too much and would probably jack up the price).
The books are being released as ebooks on a steady schedule, 1 a month I think, leading up to the publication of the posthumous novel completed by Brandon Sanderson.
Alas, though it shows on Books on Board in the UK, it is Adobe ePub only, which is no use to me.
This is soooo frustrating. The only format is kindle. Well, that really eliminates most of the world from reading a legal version. Plus, how can you justify charging more money than a PB given that EotW was first published over 29 years ago? There is absolutely NO reason to DRM this book. Pirated, formatted, and proofed versions with high quality graphics have been available for over 10 years now. Everyone who is going to “steal” an e-book for this ALREADY has! Seriously, release this book in multiple formats including a DRM free ePub version for say, $4, and you would get huge sales because there are lots of people who only read e-versions out there who would love to buy this book to replace their pirated version.
Have Amazon got some sort of exclusive deal on this? It was briefly available yesterday at Books on Board as Adobe ePub, but then vanished.
Curiously it isn’t available at Fictionwise yet, but is at Barnes & Noble. Are they already the poor cousin?
Amusingly I just received an email from eReader with a 50% discount coupon offer because I haven’t bought anything from them for a while. I wonder why?
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Could it be that they won’t let me buy anything from them. No that couldn’t be it, could it…
It’s on Sony’s site….I literally did a happy dance.