E-Book Pricing Alerts

Discussion in 'Trek Literature' started by JD, Apr 4, 2017.

  1. Villordsutch

    Villordsutch Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    Is there anyway that I (here in the UK) can pick up Stitch in Time, from a US store? I really want to read it, but it's not on sale here.
     
  2. DrBeverly

    DrBeverly Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    Yes! Go here: https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/book/136175/a-stitch-in-time/andrew-j-robinson/

    That will take you to the US site of ebooks.com. It will bug you and ask if you want to change to the UK store - say no, and stay on the US site. Add it to your basket, checkout as guest, and then pay for it using Paypal. You'll then be able to download it as an ePub format.
     
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  3. Villordsutch

    Villordsutch Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    Thank you so much for this
     
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  4. Smiley

    Smiley Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    The February sales are starting. Here's what I've found so far:

    TNG: Vendetta
    PIC: The Dark Veil ($1.99)
    TNG: Imzadi Forever
    TOS: The Romulan Way
    Dark Passions (each book in the duology is $0.99)

    EDIT: All Picard novels are $1.99, and the list has been updated on the Simon & Schuster Trek ebook deals page.
     
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  5. Brendan Moody

    Brendan Moody Vice Admiral Admiral

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    Note that, as was the case when it went on sale in 2019, the book listed as Imzadi Forever is actually just the original Imzadi, not the omnibus with both books, which has a separate listing with Signature Edition in the title.
     
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  6. Koric

    Koric Commander Red Shirt

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    @Smiley

    Don’t forget the February Trek Deals are good until 2/26/2023.

    https://www.simonandschuster.com/p/star-trek-ebook-deals

    Yeah all the Star Trek Picard novels are on sale from Picard: Last Best Hope to the newest ebook: Picard: Second Self.

    CORRECTION all 4 Picard ebooks are all $.99 cents including the Dark Veil as per the Trek sales page, except on Amazon it is $1.99. Lord knows why.

    Sorry. Hopefully, the price will drop on Amazon too?

    All the best.
    -Koric
     
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  7. Brendan Moody

    Brendan Moody Vice Admiral Admiral

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    All the Picard books are $1.99 at each retailer I checked (not just Amazon), so it’s more likely that the publisher’s deal page is wrong.
     
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  8. Villordsutch

    Villordsutch Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    I can't see any, but there's no post-Nemesis timeline books visible yet are there?

    Obviously not counting the Picard books.
     
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  9. Avro Arrow

    Avro Arrow Vice Admiral Moderator

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    It looks like the deal page has been corrected, it is showing the Picard novels as $1.99 when I look at it now.
     
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  10. DrBeverly

    DrBeverly Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    They're 99p on UK Amazon, so anyone in the UK should grab them before they realise and correct it.
     
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  11. Villordsutch

    Villordsutch Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    They're 99p over on Google Books too. Just grabbed the one I was missing (Second Self).
     
  12. Obsidian_Phil

    Obsidian_Phil Lieutenant Junior Grade Red Shirt

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    The two Eaglemoss/Hero Collector books are on sale at £2.49 each at Amazon UK:

    Star Trek - Voyager - A Celebration
    Star Trek - The Original Series - A Celebration
     
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  13. Koric

    Koric Commander Red Shirt

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    On Amazon just now on 2/25/2023 two Star Trek Discovery ebooks are on sale for $.99 cents...

    Star Trek Discovery The Way to the Stars
    Star Trek Discovery Die Standing

    They might be a part of March’s Trek Deals. I will update my post as more go on sale. These two ebooks have been a part of past sales, so check your accounts accordingly.

    All the best,
    -Koric
     
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  14. Smiley

    Smiley Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    The full page is up on the Simon and Schuster site for March. They are celebrating DS9 and women with these titles:

    DS9: Unity
    DS9: Fearful Symmetry
    DSC: Drastic Measures
    DSC: The Way to the Stars
    DSC: Die Standing
    VOY: Shadow
    VOY: Homecoming
    TNG: Survivors
    TOS: Uhura's Song
    DS9: The Lives of Dax
     
  15. Doctorossi

    Doctorossi Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    This is a light month for me, unless anyone can make a good case for any of the DS9 books, Homecoming or Survivors.
     
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  16. Smiley

    Smiley Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    Unity is a very strong story with some pivotal events to the DS9 narrative. It is the only book set post-"What You Leave Behind" that I would consider as an alternate series finale.

    The Lives of Dax is a short story anthology with some outstanding stories and nothing that I remember as a clunker.

    Survivors was okay but may be worth $1 if you are a fan of Tasha Yar. For obvious reasons, she does not get that many books devoted to her character.
     
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  17. Doctorossi

    Doctorossi Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    Thanks! I'm a little reticent to dip into any of the post-series DS9 books as I expect that's an area most likely to be overwritten by future television stories.
     
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  18. DrBeverly

    DrBeverly Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    Survivors is a decent enough read - suffers from the same issues as most of the early ST:TNG numbered novels, with characters inconsistent to how they're portrayed in the series - but it's actually one of the better stories in there, and the insight into Tasha Yar's background is actually more interesting than the version that eventually overwrote it in Legacy.

    And as noted above, The Lives of Dax is really good - an excellent collection of stories, highly recommended.
     
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  19. Corran Horn

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    I've been better recently with reading a DSC book before I later see it for a dollar.
     
  20. Christopher

    Christopher Writer Admiral

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    I would say, rather, inconsistent to how they were later portrayed in the series. At the time it was published, Survivors was perfectly consistent with the show. In particular, Data wasn't retconned to be emotionless until the start of season 3, so the tentative emotionality Data showed in Survivors was completely consistent with the Data who told Armus "I think you should be destroyed" in "Skin of Evil" and who said in "The Measure of a Man" that Tasha had been important to him. And Tasha's Turkana IV backstory and her sister Ishara weren't established until the 100th episode of TNG.

    In principle, all novels go through approval to make sure they're consistent with the show at the time of publication, so inconsistencies usually only arise after the fact -- although the long lead times on books mean that sometimes a contradiction happens after the manuscript is locked down but before the book hits the shelves.
     
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