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Morgaine Book On Kindle
Topic Started: Feb 18 2015, 05:54 PM (620 Views)
82Eridani
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I saw last night that the entire set of Morgaine books is available from Amazon for the Kindle for only $8 US. The release date is Sept. 1. Since the dog ate my copy of the set of the first three books, this is a great opportunity! And even if I still had my paper copies, I'd still want the digital version :morg
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hrhspence
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I think I'll have to get it, too.
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Hot diggity! I'll pre-order.

BCS still wants Chanur's Homecoming on Kindle and .epub.
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Neco the Nightwraith
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Cool.

Do we know how many of the Foreigner books are on Kindle?
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Ashmire
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I know it's apparently possible to pre-order the new one ( due April 7) on Kindle.
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All volumes in the Foreigner series are now available in the US in Amazon's Kindle format.

Yes, the upcoming Tracker, due April 7th in the US, will be available on Kindle then too, and it's available for pre-order in ebook and hardbound, but not yet in paperback.

All but Chanur's Homecoming, in the Chanur series, and the two omnibus editions (Chanur Saga and Chanur's Endgame) are available for Kindle. I don't know why Chanur's Homecoming is not available yet, when Chanur's Legacy is.

Many of her other books are now available for Kindle, or else they are available from her own site, Closed-Circle.net (mind the dash!).

The Faded Sun trilogy is not yet available for Kindle. Some of her older titles have been combined into newer combo-edition books and are therefore available that way. Search in the Kindle Books section for Cherryh, and that should give you everything.

-- I don't know about availability in non-USA/CAN markets (UK, EU, AU/NZ). I would very much like to include that data.

Neco, I'm not clear on it, does the US Amazon site sell to AU and NZ residents? Or to UK and EU residents either? ... I wish they would, but they don't listen to me. (Heh.)

I have a summary table at my fan site:

http://www.shinyfiction.com/cherryh-fan/foreigner/books.html

See Also:

http://www.shinyfiction.com/cherryh-fan/chanur/index.html
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It's hit and miss I think.

When I put Tracker on pre-order, I had to order it on the US site. The AUS site didn't even know it existed.
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Maybe they're still mad about that whole thing with Australia and Tom Edger versus Norway and Signy Mallory? :atwink

Good luck with the order!

(I've learned to check periodically, as Amazon once cancelled a book and ebook pre-order without telling me.)
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:ot2 Ashmire, I don't think I've ever seen anyone as active as you while still in the "Members" category...most folks would long since have been converted over to "Citizen of the Association", having so clearly proven that they are not spammers, botiin, or spambotiin :atwink. If there's a PM from an Assassin (moderator) in your Inbox, answering it would be a good way to move the process along.
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Ashmire
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No PMs received so far of any description. Thank you for the compliment, though!
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Faded Sun for kindle, please.

Faded Sun, please....

please.
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Neco, I'm not clear on it, does the US Amazon site sell to AU and NZ residents? Or to UK and EU residents either? ... I wish they would, but they don't listen to me. (Heh.)


No The US amazon does not sell ebooks to the UK. I wish they would too. You can, I think, order pbooks though. EU is a different territory and may well have different local rules. There are amazons fro germany france and a few other countries.
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Agricola, I'd love to see Faded Sun on Kindle too. And Chanur's Homecoming, Merchanter's Luck, and a few other A/U books of hers.

Reading_fox, thanks. (Some time back, I had ordered something from amazon.co.fr, too.) I know the way printed books are handled differs by country / trading region, but wasn't sure about ebooks. So...it's still a tangled mess, then. Thank you for answering!

Neco-ji, good luck on getting the ebook version. -- Could you please let us know if/when you can get it there in, er, Oz, NZ, Taz? (Sorry, I don't recall, which?)
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So...it's still a tangled mess, then


Yes.

As far as I understand it for pbooks. You can place an order from anywhere and it will be counted as a local sale at the destination, eg you can order something from anywhere that has it, and that you're prepared to pay the shipping for.

Ebooks work the other way around, your ordering location is counted as the local, and so no matter where there the supply is, you can only order ebooks that have the rights to be sold in your local country.

Something to do with the way tax is allocated between digital and real. So a US based person (or someone with a US addressed credit card) can order all the available ebooks even if they are on holiday in the UK. Meanwhile despite sitting next to them at the same PC cluster, I can only order the limited amount available to the UK, and travelling to the US wouldn't improve things.
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Yet both of us, and the other fans here, would all quite happily buy ebooks, audio, and video from each other's countries, whether we're sitting at home or at those computers abroad.

I understand the publishers' argument that they want to protect their publishing rights jealously, and keep the right to profits in their own country. The taxing authorities want the rights to revenue from taxes on items sold in their own country. And that works fine on physical items (or intangible services) sold within a country, or sold to a paying customer overseas. The overseas customer pays taxes/duties for the country of origin of the goods and services, and on the import and shipping into his/her own country and to his/her doorstep. That, too, is expected, ordinary business.

But look how much the publishers are missing out by having their ebooks, audio, and video limited to only their own country (or trading region). They miss a global market of buyers who would be happy to pay them for these media. Which publisher does it hurt more? The little guy, the smaller publisher, who could gain a great deal from the chance to sell to a global market. Imagine what that could do for a small publisher in a small country or a minority language.

Because customers would indeed like to buy those ebooks, audio, video, to enjoy, wherever they happen to be, either at the time of sale, or later, when they read, listen, or view the files.

Heh, I'd happily sit by you, Reading_Fox, and Neco, and others here, and check out books, songs, etc., from any of those places. As someone who speaks more than one language, who loves to read, and as a paying customer, I'd enjoy getting something, if I had the wonderful chance to travel overseas. It doesn't matter to me so much (if at all) whether it's from the US or UK or the other friendly countries that might have things I'd like to read, listen to, and view. What matters is that they have content I want to enjoy, so much so that I'm willing to pay for a copy to keep and enjoy repeatedly. Which is, of course, exactly what those publishers really want.

It's such a shame that they still have this nonsense of "region codes" and limits, when the digital/electronic market is really global. I'm sure publishers (and authors/artists) (and those taxing authorities) would profit from increased sales to a global market. Some would see huge benefits. Customers would be happier.

And...not only is that about the customer from overseas who speaks the language, native or learned...it's also about the customer who's from that country, but now living and working elsewhere.

As a US citizen, I'd love to be able to buy ebooks, etc., from other countries, and many overseas would like to buy US-published e-media. -- But surely the UK citizen who's working abroad, or who's living overseas, possibly married, but still (of course) loves the UK, it must be galling not to be able to get e-media from what's still (or was formerly) their mother country. Likewise for overseas residents who speak the language natively, or who learned it and use it. If I were, for example, European, or Australian (etc.), or Japanese, I would be very aggravated not to be able to get US-published e-media, merely because the publishers and taxing authorities...aren't being smart enough to see they could sell to me and I'd pay for the privilege. Just because they're jealous and don't want to share, doesn't mean that, ahem, they couldn't change their minds and relax those sales restrictions, and thereby gain a larger customer base (the entire planet) and profit from it. So...their jealous guarding of their publishing rights is outdoing their greedy dreams of fortune. Heheh. (I am OK with them making a decent profit from sales. I want to profit too from my work.) Heh. So...I just wish the situation would improve.

Besides, my friends here are missing out for months or years, before ebooks and other media become available to them, all because of restrictions that really, really no longer mean what they did, in our global mass media market.

Meanwhile, I subscribe to BBC-America's sales of Doctor Who, etc., via iTunes, because otherwise, I couldn't get it for months or years. The same for other content. The Beeb itself could sell to me, if restrictions like these were lifted. So could publishers in small towns or small countries, minority or majority languages, and so on.

That would be an "everybody wins" situation. Yet instead, we all sit here behind our little electronic fences, because I can't buy from over there, and they can't buy from over here. Apparently, no one has noticed that this small blue planet is an isolated oasis in a vast, empty, black nothingness. We've all got to live here together. We might as well share. ... And if and when we have colonies on the Moon, Mars, in Earth orbit, or elsewhere, it's still our own Solar System, still a single market, ultimately.

I wonder how long it will take them to figure out that regionless, global sales really can benefit everyone.

Meanwhile, I'm sorry non-US fans won't get to enjoy the newest Foreigner book nearly so soon.

The US print and ebook release date is still April 7th, 2015; that's 2015-04-07. So if you pre-order the hardbound copy, you'll still be ahead some. It's not due out in paperback for probably another year, if they follow true to form.

Others, like the Complete Morgaine, are due thereafter. The Complete Morgaine: 2015-09-07. (Sept. 7th.)

Here's hoping for more besides.

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