Weird publishing decisions strike again!
Jan. 10th, 2016 06:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyIt's bad enough when I can purchase 2 out of 3 books in a trilogy as an e-book, but the third isn't available.
But what sense does it possibly make to be able to purchase books 2 - 4 on the Kindle, but not the first one? (That'd be The Birchbark House.)
Or this one: A few years back I picked up two books at The Strand - The Key to Rondo and The Wizard of Rondo. Eva really likes those, wanted the third.
The last one was never printed in the United States. It's solely available... as an audiobook. Or in Chinese. In order to get the printed copy, I had to order it over eBay. From Australia.
Now, I can see a publisher printing out the first two books of a trilogy but declining to finish the series if they think there isn't enough money in it. But why oh why would they publish the third as an audiobook but not in print?
What on earth are these people thinking as they make their decisions?
In other news, I recently discovered that The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks series is back in print. (But not as an ebook.) Man, I loved those books as a kid. You know, the 80s and 90s was really great for a specialized category of children's literature that you don't see too much of - not too long, kinda weird premise. Even just "not too long" is fading away, and kids books keep getting longer and longer. Which is great for kids who like long books, but no doubt intimidating for slower readers.
But what sense does it possibly make to be able to purchase books 2 - 4 on the Kindle, but not the first one? (That'd be The Birchbark House.)
Or this one: A few years back I picked up two books at The Strand - The Key to Rondo and The Wizard of Rondo. Eva really likes those, wanted the third.
The last one was never printed in the United States. It's solely available... as an audiobook. Or in Chinese. In order to get the printed copy, I had to order it over eBay. From Australia.
Now, I can see a publisher printing out the first two books of a trilogy but declining to finish the series if they think there isn't enough money in it. But why oh why would they publish the third as an audiobook but not in print?
What on earth are these people thinking as they make their decisions?
In other news, I recently discovered that The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks series is back in print. (But not as an ebook.) Man, I loved those books as a kid. You know, the 80s and 90s was really great for a specialized category of children's literature that you don't see too much of - not too long, kinda weird premise. Even just "not too long" is fading away, and kids books keep getting longer and longer. Which is great for kids who like long books, but no doubt intimidating for slower readers.
