The last two years I have read about 30 ST books / year. This year I have barely read one ST book per month. If I don't just want to tread water but also make a dint in prior ST works, I do not have much wiggle room. Then, I also want to watch the complete 5 TV series. I would also like to read other science fiction literature and other literature too. Then there's life other than reading and TV. Then, there's also the other literature written by ST authors such as the copy of "The Calling" by David Mack which I recently purchased at a thrift store. I have yet to keep up with the buying of books and must read a significant number too in order to make the buying worthwhile. I am glad that the e-book company has virtually all ST books available for purchase.
2 books per month to 1 per month....
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I thought two per month was great. So many new books...
I'm glad it's not two per month because I've had a hard time keeping up with the 24th century novels as it is with all the other stuff I want to read.
I'd be happy with 2 books a month with one being an eBook only (never to be printed).
Are these Dr. Who eBooks to be full length or are they to be short stories?
That's not a good month of choice. Money's tight then due to the holidays and gift buying.
If we aren't going back to two monthly, let's go for the monthly print novel and three eBook only novels (not novella or short story). The three would be in January, May and September.
That would work very well (IMHO) if we don't go back to two monthly. Though we did sort of have two monthly when we had SCE/CoE. I'm just ashamed of the so-called" fans who caused SCE/CoE to end due to waiting for these in print.
I like that there's 1 book per month. This way I can not only keep up with reading them, but I can keep up with BUYING Trek novels. If there was more than 1 per month I wouldn't be able to keep up. And as others said, there are other books to read too. I like Star Trek, but I also read a variety of other books as well.
Short stories, I believe.
Also, there's no shelf space in the book shops as they're full of November-published Christmas gift books. That's why, in the monghly/two-per-month days, the BBC books Doctor Who range actually put out 11/22 books a year and took December off.
I'm glad there is only one book a month. I can't even keep up with what we're getting now because I read stuff other than Trek.
We're already getting more than 12 books a year, thanks to the ebooks. We had one each in 2011 & 2012, one in March with another coming out in December of this year, and at least two next year.
We're already getting more than 12 books a year, thanks to the ebooks. We had one each in 2011 & 2012, one in March with another coming out in December of this year, and at least two next year.
Add me to the list of those who are glad there are one book a month because I can't keep up as it is. Not reading all the TOS novels helps, otherwise it would be impossible for me to ever finish the back log of older novels I'm working on.
It seems when we first went to one per month there were a lot more trade paperbacks per year than there are now, so we were still getting more stories then than what it seems like we're getting now. (This is just going from memory... I didn't go count them or anything.)
Um, yeah, that "holidays and gift buying" thing is probably exactly why they would do it that month.
JWolf, let me just personally apologize to you for causing you so much shame. I had no idea my decision to not buy SCE/COE eBooks caused you such psychological distress. You see, I stopped buying them because, due to technical issues, I basically flushed the money I spent on the first four down the toilet. I didn't feel this was a viable long-term financial model, and so decided to stop buying the eBooks and wait for the print versions. Selfish, I know... I just didn't consider how that decision would affect you personally. Hopefully you can find it within yourself to forgive me.
If it mitigates your shame any, please rest assured that I have had no such issues with my Kobo, and have been happily buying all the recent eBook exclusives.
BTW, if there is a subforum here that me and my fellow "so-called" fans should be hanging out in, feel free to supply a link.
I'm sorry, what?
Um, yeah, that "holidays and gift buying" thing is probably exactly why they would do it that month.
JWolf, let me just personally apologize to you for causing you so much shame. I had no idea my decision to not buy SCE/COE eBooks caused you such psychological distress. You see, I stopped buying them because, due to technical issues, I basically flushed the money I spent on the first four down the toilet. I didn't feel this was a viable long-term financial model, and so decided to stop buying the eBooks and wait for the print versions. Selfish, I know... I just didn't consider how that decision would affect you personally. Hopefully you can find it within yourself to forgive me.
If it mitigates your shame any, please rest assured that I have had no such issues with my Kobo, and have been happily buying all the recent eBook exclusives.
BTW, if there is a subforum here that me and my fellow "so-called" fans should be hanging out in, feel free to supply a link.
I'm sorry, what?
Yeah, this is definitely the case for me as well. When the books increased to two a month I gave up all hope of ever reading them all. I actually started buying more Trek books when they went back to one a month, because now I felt it was possible for me to actually keep up with reading the new releases.
Who says that's why the eBooks ended? It seemed to coincide with Simon & Schuster's budget tightening in all areas. If the trade collections were the only ones selling gangbusters, surely the final hardcopy volumes would have been released by now?
Originally, I had to wait for the print versions. (Initially we were told that SCE would always be an exclusive!) Early S&S eBooks were not suited to the PowerMac I owned at the time (ditto access to this TrekBBS), and my several attempts to download them to a PC at work hit a firewall.
Once, I had every intention of buying the SCE eBooks in digital form, but they were popping out faster than I could read them all, and my ever-thicker and thicker hardcopy regular ST novels were piling up. I bought each SCE MMPB and trade out of duty and will get to them one day. It just seemed foolish to download more eBooks until I was ready to read them, in case I hit transfer of inventory problems several computer upgrades down the track.
Honestly, that seems a bit harsh. It's possible to be a fan and still prefer paper books. Not everybody is an early adopter of every new gizmo and technology.
Don't get me wrong. I'm sure ebooks are wonderful and I appreciate the extra royalties and all, but I don't think anyone is less of a fan just because they weren't on the cutting-edge of book-reading technology back in the day . . . .
Heck, I have yet to take the plunge myself, although I suppose I'll have to get around to it one of these days!
You're not missing much with the e-books. I've downloaded the "Slings Amd Arrows" series and "The Struggle Within". I've found that the series were mostly used for tidying up loose-ends that did not have a lot of impact on the series; the plots were also relatively simple compared to the paperback releases.
But if we ever saw a return to 2 books a month, it would be nice if the numbering system was re activated for the novels that took place within the TV series, and were stand-alones, while an unnumbered novel was also released to continue the post series stories.
But if we ever saw a return to 2 books a month, it would be nice if the numbering system was re activated for the novels that took place within the TV series, and were stand-alones, while an unnumbered novel was also released to continue the post series stories.
Well that was during the recession also, wasn't it?
I rarely bought the SCE/Corp of Engineers series because most of the time it didn't interest me. Just because someone is a fan, it doesn't mean they are somehow required to buy all the merchandising.
I seem to recall accidentally angering KRAD when the "Corps of Engineers" eBooks were ended so suddenly because I had assumed that Simon & Schuster wouldn't have been getting out of the originial-to-eBook arena completely, just putting Trek eBooks on hiatus to try something else digitally - but during the fallout from the Global Financial Crisis, jobs were vanishing all over the place in their several restructures. People weren't being fired because they weren't good at their jobs; the company was downsizing and restructuring in order to survive. IIRC, the entire original-to-eBook division was eliminated. At least for a few years.
Wasn't it also that there was some buyer resistance to the term "Engineers" in the title, leading to the view that the series was excessively techie, even though the series was strongly character-driven?
I think that was the rationale beyond the original title being S.C.E. instead. But it was only published under the Corps of Engineers title for eight months, not enough time to assess the impact of the title change on sales.
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