I know when I go online I don't see any available to purchase like there use to be back in the 1990s and early 2000s in stores. I guess it's cheaper to make softcovers and there really isn't a demand for them. I'm sure sales are quite low now.
They don't make hardcover editions anymore?
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The last hardcover was Shatner's Collision Course back in 2007, although in some parts of the world hardcover editions of the novelizations of the Abrams movies were made available. Otherwise, since 2007 any large novel release was done as a trade paperback, but even those haven't happened for a few years now.
No, the last hardcover was Alan Gratz's The Assassination Game in 2012 that was also released as a Trade Paperback at the same time.
I assumed we were talking about adult hardcovers and not mini-hardcovers the size of MMPBs.
Was Unity the last non-Shatner hardcover original? (Yes, I know Assassination Game had a hardcover release.)
I'm pretty sure it was, yeah.
2006: "New Frontier: Missing in Action".
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Missing_in_Action
"Unity" was 2003.
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Missing_in_Action
"Unity" was 2003.
Let's just be glad most releases are still available in hardcopy, let alone hardcover. A few of them aren't.
I'm sure none of the Novels haven't been released in hardcopy. Or are you referring to the Novelles which were designed to be sold as an ebook?
The current "New Frontier" trilogy of novellas was originally advertised as a new trade novel, in hardcopy with the Gallery imprint, and was later rejigged to become three eBook novellas. AFAIK, it was commissioned as a hardcopy novel.
The only other ST eBook exclusive I can think of is not a novel, but an often ovelooked non-fiction work, "The Magic of Tribbles: The Making of ST DS9's 'Trials and Tribble-ations'".
Oh yeah, I forgot about the NF hardcovers.
2007. IIRC, the second and third novels in this trilogy were delayed a year each when the authors were asked to add in information about the Remans from "Nemesis".
I think that was a bad solicit, due to some confusion with PAD's Halo novel due out in trade paperback that same month.
Actually there have been a lot of e-book exclusives. The 66 novellas in SCE series, the series was then contined with the 8 more e-book novellas under the Corps of Engineers title. The SCE novellas were later collected in 13 MMPB and TPB volumes.
There was also the 6 novella TOS mini-series Mere Anarchy, which was later collected in one TPB.
This was followed by a 6 novella TNG mini series, Slings and Arrows. This one was not released in any other format.
They stopped doing e-book exclusives for a few years before bring them back with a new bunch of stand alone novellas. They are Typhon Pact: The Struggle Within, Vanguard: The Tempest's Wake, TNG: The Stuff of Dreams, Titan: Absent Enemies, TOS: Seasons of Light and Darkness, TOS: The More Things Change, DS9: Lust's Latinum Lost (and Found), TNG: Q Are Cordially Uninvited, DTI: The Collectors, TOS: Shadows of the Machines, and now NF: The Returned Part 1. Later this year we are also getting, NF: The Returned Part 2 & Part 3, and DS9: The Empty Sack, which is belives is a sequel to Love's Latinum...
All of which are fiction and novellas, and covered by previous posters.
As in:
And JD, they are no longer eBook exclusives if they eventually come out in hardcopy. (The first four or so SCEs were heavily promoted as eBook exclusives - not/never available in hardcopy! - making many fans angry, at the time, that they lacked the proper download capabilities to buy or read them. Originally, the SCE eBooks were not available to Mac users, nor could they be downloaded through work-related firewalls.)
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