Star Trek Books Not Available as E-Books

[JD]

I'm creating this thread to put together a list of all of the Trek books that aren't available as e-books.
Novels
All Bantam novels
Ashes of Eden
The Return
Avenger
Enteprise: The First Adventure

Novelizations
James Blish TOS novelizations
Star Trek Logs (TAS novelizations)

Behind the Scenes
For this one, so little is available I'm listing what is available as an e-book
The 50 Year Mission (both books)
TNG 365
the TNG Companion
Voyages of Imagination
New Life and Civilizations: Exploring Star Trek Comics


In Universe Non-Fiction
The Illustrated Handbooks
Special Note: The Enterprise Haynes manual is available as a Nook Book and on Google Play, but not for Kindle

 

[Smiley]

I'm not finding the Deep Space Nine Companion as an ebook on Amazon. Is it available from another source?

If people are really paying over $90 for the book, it might be the right time to sell it. I've read it at least five times and have most of the interesting stories memorized by this point.

 

[JD]

Nope, I've kept an eye out for it for a while and would have bought it if it was.

 

[KRAD]

The books published by Bantam (Blish adaptations, the novels through to 1981) and Del Rey (Foster adaptations) would not have accounted for eBooks as part of their license agreements for obvious reasons, so we'll likely never see them in that format.

 

[tomswift2002]

You might want to clarify that these are the English versions that are not available. Shatner’s books are available as ebooks in German.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Ashes of Eden
The Return
Avenger
Enteprise: The First Adventure

Do we know why these ones haven't been made available?

Also, were you planning to include comics compilations? I don't think Crew or The Last Generation were ever made available digitally.

 

[tomswift2002]

The books published by Bantam (Blish adaptations, the novels through to 1981) and Del Rey (Foster adaptations) would not have accounted for eBooks as part of their license agreements for obvious reasons, so we'll likely never see them in that format.

I was just reading in the case of “Star Trek Lives!” the rights reverted to the author/editor of that book, and she’s tried releasing it digitally, but she can’t get her co-authors, Sondra Marshak or Joan Winston’s estate to give her permission.

 

[KRAD]

Do we know why these ones haven't been made available?

Can't speak to the Shatner books, but my guess is that they don't have electronic versions of Enterprise: The First Adventure, and nobody's made the effort to scan it.

 

[BillJ]

The Making of Star Trek still isn’t available as a ebook.

 

[JD]

The books published by Bantam (Blish adaptations, the novels through to 1981) and Del Rey (Foster adaptations) would not have accounted for eBooks as part of their license agreements for obvious reasons, so we'll likely never see them in that format.

How complicated is it to add the e-book rights for older books like that?

 

[Dayton Ward]

For the Bantam novels and Foster adaptations, their respective publishers would likely have to pay to secure those rights from CBS, and for the non-fiction books not specifically written as works for hire, they'd have to secure the rights from the original authors (or their families/estates). If that sort of thing was going to happen, someone likely would've done it by now. Someone counting beans somewhere may have run the numbers and decided it wasn't worth the time and expense.

On a semi sorta related note, I'm actually surprised The Making of Star Trek didn't get a minty fresh new print edition for the 50th anniversary.

 

[Jinn]

All of the 1990s YA DS9 novels and the TOS, TNG and VGR Starfleet Academy novels aren't available as eBooks either.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Behind the Scenes
For this one, so little is available I'm listing what is available as an e-book
The 50 Year Mission (both books)
TNG 365
the TNG Companion
Voyages of Imagination
New Life and Civilizations: Exploring Star Trek Comics

And on eBook only, "The Magic of Tribbles: The Making of the DS9 Episode, Trials and Tribble-ations" by Terry J. Erdmann.

 

[Therin of Andor]

How complicated is it to add the e-book rights for older books like that?

Very, since Pocket/Gallery has an exclusive license and the Bantam/Spectra and Ballantine/Del Rey contracts were signed before eBooks were commercially viable. Interesting that Pocket actually did a complete 1995 three-volume set of "Log" reprints (the previous 1993 Del Rey US three-volume set had omitted "Log Ten") for their international market, although there has since been a 2006 Del Rey US complete five-volume trade paperback set.

 

[Daddy Todd]

Behind the Scenes

Return to Tomorrow: The Filming of Star Trek — The Motion Picture was released as a Kindle ebook within the month.

 

[Avro Arrow]

All of the 1990s YA DS9 novels and the TOS, TNG and VGR Starfleet Academy novels aren't available as eBooks either.

I haven't done an exhaustive search, but for the handful that *are* available (since it's easier to list those, rather than the ones that aren't ), I've found:

ST: TNG Starfleet Academy #1: Worf's First Adventure
ST: DSN #1: The Star Ghost
ST: DSN #10: Space Camp

As mentioned, not exhaustive, so there may be more?

 

[JD]

Those are the only ones I've seen.
Can't believe I forgot about the YA books in my first post.

 

[Jinn]

I haven't done an exhaustive search, but for the handful that *are* available (since it's easier to list those, rather than the ones that aren't ), I've found:

ST: TNG Starfleet Academy #1: Worf's First Adventure
ST: DSN #1: The Star Ghost
ST: DSN #10: Space Camp

As mentioned, not exhaustive, so there may be more?

Also, for whatever reason, also the German editions of the YA adaption of Generations and the DS9 novel Gipsy World.

 

[JWolf]

And on eBook only, "The Magic of Tribbles: The Making of the DS9 Episode, Trials and Tribble-ations" by Terry J. Erdmann.

And the eBook only Mere Anarchy series.

 

[Smiley]

And the eBook only Mere Anarchy series.

This is available as a paperback (omnibus) and ebook (individual titles and omnibus).