Nilekh S asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

Hi,is there any plan to reprint the entire vorkosigan saga,can't find any trade paperbacks in print?

Lois McMaster Bujold
No such plans at this time.

There weren't very many trade paperbacks done in the first place. My print backlist is presently a pretty random grab-bag of varied editions and formats -- hardcover, trade paperback, and mass market paperback -- done over decades by Baen and NESFA Press. A few titles are still to be found new, most must be grubbed up from the used book market. Without a new full-length novel to front it, reprinting the backlist would lose money for any print publisher attempting it.

I have considered the option of doing indie print-on-demand editions, like our somewhat experimental editions of "Knife Children" and The Spirit Ring, but sales of those have not yet repaid the efforts to produce them. Spectrum's experienced and dedicated (in both senses) e-book wrangler left last year, so it would be a big struggle up a learning curve to replace her. And there's no way to get such indie editions into bricks-'n-mortar bookstores. And so it sits at the moment.

Meanwhile, my e-editions continue to sell and sell, and Blackstone does a good job marketing their audiobook editions, so I don't feel "out of print" from this end.

Ta, L.

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