E.J. Xavier
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Have you considered (or more to the point would you consider offering an ebook boxed set/s of the Vorkosiverse? I read many but not all of them years ago, and find myself wishing I could fill in the blanks. After finishing your latest (fantastic btw) I realized I'd love to just reread the series. I'd be very interested in an ebook box set or two with those spiffy new covers you showed recently.
Lois McMaster Bujold
No such plans at this time.
I'm not sure I actually see the point of e-boxed sets, when all the e-titles of a series are equally and simultaneously e-available. For paper books, boxed sets circumvent book vendors' maddening habit of not having all the books, or the earlier books, available on the shelves simultaneously, so that anyone's attention that is caught, say, by Book #4 is thwarted from starting at the beginning and so doesn't start at all. E-vendors, with their infinite virtual shelf space, don't have that problem in the first place, thankfully.
So any reader can fill in the blanks any time, in any order, a la carte.
E-boxed sets, which are in effect e-omnibuses, have the opposite problem of readers complaining that they'd bought such-and-such a title previously, and why should they have to pay for it twice, or the worse one of mistaking the omnibus for a new title, ditto. I think it's safer just to put all the books out as coherently as possible (hence the new e-cover treatments), and let readers choose for themselves.
For reading order and the Did-I-get-them-all? questions, there's this:
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
Everyone please feel free to pass this link along.
Ta, L.
No such plans at this time.
I'm not sure I actually see the point of e-boxed sets, when all the e-titles of a series are equally and simultaneously e-available. For paper books, boxed sets circumvent book vendors' maddening habit of not having all the books, or the earlier books, available on the shelves simultaneously, so that anyone's attention that is caught, say, by Book #4 is thwarted from starting at the beginning and so doesn't start at all. E-vendors, with their infinite virtual shelf space, don't have that problem in the first place, thankfully.
So any reader can fill in the blanks any time, in any order, a la carte.
E-boxed sets, which are in effect e-omnibuses, have the opposite problem of readers complaining that they'd bought such-and-such a title previously, and why should they have to pay for it twice, or the worse one of mistaking the omnibus for a new title, ditto. I think it's safer just to put all the books out as coherently as possible (hence the new e-cover treatments), and let readers choose for themselves.
For reading order and the Did-I-get-them-all? questions, there's this:
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
Everyone please feel free to pass this link along.
Ta, L.
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hello; Do authors usually get a percentage of the profit after costs for the sales of the book? If they do, how does that work with e-books? The cost is much lower to produce and no shipping costs so when that is factored out, so the profit starts coming sooner doesn't it?
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