Wicket
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hey, I was wondering if there are any future plans to release your Penric novellas in the UK, either individually or together in a volume? I really enjoyed the three Chalion novels and would love to read the novellas - it's just that I can't get along with reading from a screen: I'm old-fashioned and need a paper book! Thanks and apologies if you have already answered this question here somewhere.
Lois McMaster Bujold
They are all out as e-books in the UK, of course. You could have them in seconds by downloading, say, the free Kindle app onto the very screen you are reading from now. Not sure what iTunes offers in that direction.
A paper volume would depend on a British paper-books publisher making an offer for them, which seems very unlikely. Even British publishers (may) have woken up enough to want e-rights with their package, which I am not foolish enough to part with. The chances of anyone in the UK wishing to do paper-only like Subterranean Press seem remote.
Note that even SubPress doesn't get books into US stores, apart from a few specialty shops. Their business model doesn't attempt to cope with the book returns system (which is a whole 'nother essay.)
(At present, my own eyes are doing better with reading off a screen than from paper print, for whatever reason. The ability to enlarge type is a boon. Holding the device comfortably in one's lap or hands is another issue, which I'm presently managing with a board/tray that is padded underneath for my laptop and a small triangular foam cushion to prop my tablet.)
Ta, L.
They are all out as e-books in the UK, of course. You could have them in seconds by downloading, say, the free Kindle app onto the very screen you are reading from now. Not sure what iTunes offers in that direction.
A paper volume would depend on a British paper-books publisher making an offer for them, which seems very unlikely. Even British publishers (may) have woken up enough to want e-rights with their package, which I am not foolish enough to part with. The chances of anyone in the UK wishing to do paper-only like Subterranean Press seem remote.
Note that even SubPress doesn't get books into US stores, apart from a few specialty shops. Their business model doesn't attempt to cope with the book returns system (which is a whole 'nother essay.)
(At present, my own eyes are doing better with reading off a screen than from paper print, for whatever reason. The ability to enlarge type is a boon. Holding the device comfortably in one's lap or hands is another issue, which I'm presently managing with a board/tray that is padded underneath for my laptop and a small triangular foam cushion to prop my tablet.)
Ta, L.
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Peter Tillman
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Ms Bujold Did you know Ursula Le Guin? I ask because (doh) I can't ask her... I just reread "Coming of Age in Karhide", one of her best shorts, set in Gethen/Winter https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2690808608 (which has a link to the story. Anyway -- The Gethenian aren't homo saps -- we are the exceptions in the world of mammals, being permanently in kemmer -- a perversion, to their eyes. [to be con'd]
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