Grr.... Sell me books, dammit!
Oct. 3rd, 2014 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidgillonSo I've been trying to find a few books to put on the Kindle for reading when I head back up to my folks. Because of the situation with Dad still hospitalised I'm looking for comfort reading, so I've been slowly working through incomplete series I'm already reading and/or things I've noted as wanting to read from places like Collected Driblets of Baen.
Annoyingly, almost everything I've looked at so far, is either not available on ebook yet, only available in the States (which I could probably work around, but spoons), or only available at the same price as the hardcover (which I understand reasons for, but is a price I can't justify paying), particularly irritating is only available at same price as the hardcover when the paperback is already out! And we aren't talking obscure stuff by minor authors - S. M. Stirling's Emberverse novels, for instance, High King of Montival has been in print at least 4 years, the ebook is available in the States, Penguin UK's site can't even find the author (or apparently the entire Roc imprint), never mind sell you the ebook *headdesk* (their ebook faq talks about plans for 2009 - way to look amateurish, guys!). Other annoyances: series titled X of Y, with no clear indication of which is the next book in the series.
Oh, I'll find stuff, but really, publishers, should it be so hard!
Annoyingly, almost everything I've looked at so far, is either not available on ebook yet, only available in the States (which I could probably work around, but spoons), or only available at the same price as the hardcover (which I understand reasons for, but is a price I can't justify paying), particularly irritating is only available at same price as the hardcover when the paperback is already out! And we aren't talking obscure stuff by minor authors - S. M. Stirling's Emberverse novels, for instance, High King of Montival has been in print at least 4 years, the ebook is available in the States, Penguin UK's site can't even find the author (or apparently the entire Roc imprint), never mind sell you the ebook *headdesk* (their ebook faq talks about plans for 2009 - way to look amateurish, guys!). Other annoyances: series titled X of Y, with no clear indication of which is the next book in the series.
Oh, I'll find stuff, but really, publishers, should it be so hard!
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Date: 2014-10-10 06:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-10 03:10 pm (UTC)Australian flavour isn't a problem, I've worked with a bunch of Aussies over the years, so they aren't that alien to me ;) (and I'm a fan of the Phryne Fisher mysteries). For the literary end of the spectrum it tends to depend on the individual book, but that's no different to anything else!
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Date: 2014-10-12 09:31 pm (UTC)I'd say Kim Westwood primarily writes SF, though it does have a literary feel to it. She does some interesting things with gender and is well worth checking out, if you get the chance.
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Date: 2014-10-12 09:47 pm (UTC)