Yeah, my ebook for Vonda McIntyre's The Moon and the Sun changed cover and title in my Kindle collection due to the film adaptation, The King's Daughter, a few years ago.
Star Trek Generations novelization with original Kirk ending available anywhere in digital?
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I had the book in hardcover. The Moon and the Sun ebook was on sale, and I bought it because I could lighten my library. No good deed (the book went in a LFL) goes unpunished...
Yeah that bugs me to, the other times it's especially annoying is if a series uses the same cover style for every book, but then a new edition of one comes out and it changes the cover so it doesn't match the rest.
Or even just a new installment. The first eight installments of ADF's Star Trek Log series had white covers with an actual TAS scene (usually from an episode adapted in the volume, though there might have been an exception) reproduced on the front cover. Then, for the last two volumes, Ballantine/Del Rey went to an illustration of the Enterprise at some odd angle, on a solid-color cover, a format they used for subsequent reprints of the first eight.
I'm really glad that (other than changing the back cover format) they didn't do that when they did a fully-illustrated TPB edition of the fourteen canonical Oz books: more-or-less the same slab-serif typeface, same color-on-color spine, same stunningly beautiful Michael Herring cover paintings, based on the original book illustrations.
Digital editions, unless the IP owner is a stickler for respecting the reader, are always subject to change (or even clawback). But print is forever (or at least, until the paper disintegrates).
And if my novel-in-progress ever sees distribution in digital form, you better believe it will be in a form that is immune to forced revisions or clawbacks. Even if I end up just putting a modification-protected PDF out under a Creative Commons "BY-ND" license.
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I just checked, and only the first five covers are from episodes in their respective volumes. Log 6's cover is the Lactran city from "The Eye of the Beholder" (Log 8). Log 7's cover is a generic overhead bridge shot of the crew clinging to their chairs under turbulence, which is probably in several episodes, but not in "The Counter-Clock Incident," where all the shots from that angle have one or both of the Aprils in the shot. Log 8's cover is a shot of Kirk against a forest background which I can't match to any of the TrekCore screencaps in "The Eye of the Beholder" or indeed any other episode I could think of that included such a setting.
In my own personal collection, I only had Logs 1-7 with the white covers and 8-10 with the greenish Enterprise covers. So I didn't learn until decades later that there was a version of 8 in the original cover format.
That doesn't bother me as much, since when they do that the future books will usually stick to that format for a while. With the e-book changes it'll often be just the first book or even random books in the middle of the series.
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