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E-Book Pricing Alerts

Got an email from Humble Bundle today that might be of interest to some of you. They are selling a Bundle of Star Trek ebooks from Hero Collector, called "The Star Trek Library Book Bundle". No fiction, but the books included in the Bundle are:

Star Trek: The Original Series: A Celebration
Star Trek: Voyager: A Celebration

Star Trek Designing Starships Vol 1: The Enterprises and Beyond
Star Trek Designing Starships Vol 2: The USS Voyager and Beyond
Star Trek Designing Starships Vol 3: The Kelvin Timeline
Star Trek Designing Starships Vol 4: Discovery
Star Trek Designing Starships Vol 5: Deep Space Nine and Beyond

Star Trek Shipyards: 2151-2293
Star Trek Shipyards: 2294 to the Future 2nd Edition
Star Trek Shipyards: Federation Members
Star Trek Shipyards: The Borg and Delta Quadrant Vol 1 A-K
Star Trek Shipyards: Delta Quadrant Vol 2 L-Z
Star Trek Shipyards: The Klingon Fleet

Star Trek Nerd Search: Quibbles with Tribbles
Star Trek Nerd Search: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 & NCC-1701-A Illustrated Handbook
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Enterprise 1701-D Illustrated Handbook
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Illustrated Handbook
Star Trek: The U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656 Illustrated Handbook

Mr. Spock's Little Book of Mindfulness
Star Trek Cocktails
The Book of Grudge: Book's Cat from Star Trek Discovery​

All 22 books are available for CA$31.40 (adjust for local currency as necessary), and of course as usual there are also cheaper versions of the Bundle with less books in them. The books are available in PDF format.

Just wanted to let you know in case anyone was interested!
 
I literally have only been buying the paper copies of the Hero Collector books because I didn't think I'd ever see them as DRM-free eBooks. That's a HUGE deal, for $25, it's an absolute steal (the cost of ONE book on Amazon). Probably everyone here should be buying it.
 
I saw these on Reddit this morning, and I snagged the biggest lot. It seems to contain EVERY Star Trek title Hero Collector has ever published, which is awesome.

The only drawback is that many of the titles have the "pages" of the PDFs formatted as two-page spreads, which is not ideal for any viewer that's not running on one of your big monitors on your desktop. On my iPad, they are mostly legible. But on anything with a smaller screen, they will be challenging to read.
 
You can copy and paste the art elements out of those PDFs. 90% of the Eaglemoss stuff is already available for free (their magazines are all online, legally on their site) but it's very cool nonetheless.
 
I don't know if I should post these here, because they're not Star Trek, but just in case any of you are also Firefly fans, I just wanted to let you know that the ebooks of the first two Firefly novels (Big Damn Hero by James Lovegrove & Nancy Holder, and The Magnificent Nine by James Lovegrove) are both on sale for CA$1.99 on Kobo Canada and Amazon Canada. I'm not sure how long the sale will be on for.
 
I don't know if I should post these here, because they're not Star Trek, but just in case any of you are also Firefly fans, I just wanted to let you know that the ebooks of the first two Firefly novels (Big Damn Hero by James Lovegrove & Nancy Holder, and The Magnificent Nine by James Lovegrove) are both on sale for CA$1.99 on Kobo Canada and Amazon Canada. I'm not sure how long the sale will be on for.
They're also $1.99 on the US Amazon.
 
June 2022 Star Trek eBook deals
https://www.simonandschuster.com/p/star-trek-ebook-deals
This list is complete unlike the list posted earlier in this thread.

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Actually, yes, I did know that. I’ve checked out many an eBook that way. Unfortunately, when I request that my public library add eBooks that they don’t already have copies of to their OverDrive library I have much less of a success rate than when I request them to add print copies of stuff they don’t have. (It’s two separate requests forms.)

But one thing you *can’t* (as far as I can tell) do is check out eBooks via interlibrary loan like you can print ones (sent from one library system to another through the mail). If your library system doesn’t have the eBook (an exclusively eBook one like the Slings and Arrows), I can’t say to them, hey, Boston Public has it. Can you get them to check it out to me (like I could a print copy; I’ve got a print copy of The Star Wars Archives: Episodes IV-VI, 1977-1983 loaned out to me from a public library system in Washington state via the local Tampa, Florida public library system).

—David Young
Brandon, Florida

Update: Happy dance time! My local public library system (Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library) added all six “Slings and Arrows” books to their OverDrive collection at my request. (They started out adding just books three and four but when I wrote to them saying it was a six book series, they bought the rest, too.)

I still hope S&S eventually offers them at $0.99 monthly sale price at some point, though, so I can actually own copies.

—David Young
 
I'm curious if the Slings and Arrows books are still making many sales at their current prices. I don't ever expect a print compilation of the series, but would it be difficult for the people at Pocket Books to create a bundle for ebook retailers to sell? I would easily pick up the series if it were offered at $15 for all 6.

I also wonder who is buying the old Corps of Engineers books at $6 a pop when the omnibus ebook collections are about the same price. Surely, a permanent reduction to $1-3 would draw in more new readers to the individual stories.
 
Looks like the July novels will be from The Typhon Pact (except for #5??) with TNG's Dark Mirror and VOY's The Murdered Sun to round out the list. These are live on Amazon.us
 
Looks like the July novels will be from The Typhon Pact (except for #5??) with TNG's Dark Mirror and VOY's The Murdered Sun to round out the list. These are live on Amazon.us

Thanks for the heads up. I don’t have any of these in eBook format yet (except for The More Things Change, mentioned by Allyn) so I’ll be getting all of them this month. Still, it would have been nice if they’d included the two Titan novels they left out last month in this month’s group.

—David Young
 
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