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Dead Tree Society, rejoice!!!!!

KRAD

KRAD

Keith R.A. DeCandido
Admiral
I'm pleased to announce that, fates willing and the creek don't rise, Pocket has tentatively added a second Corps of Engineers trade paperback to the 2007 schedule: Creative Couplings, which should be out some time in the fall. This follows July's publication of Grand Designs, which means that by the end of 2007, the first 49 eBooks will be in dead-tree form.

Here are the full table of contents for both of them:

Grand Designs
  • #37: Ring Around the Sky by Allyn Gibson ("Make-Believe" in Constellations)
    #38: Orphans by Kevin Killiany ("Personal Log" in Strange New Worlds IV)
    #39: Grand Designs by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore (Summon the Thunder, A Time to Sow)
    #40: Failsafe by David Mack (Warpath, A Time to Kill)
    #41: Bitter Medicine by Dave Galanter (Mere Anarchy Book 3: Shadows of the Indignant)
    #42: Sargasso Sector by Paul Kupperberg (DC's Star Trek comic book)

Creative Couplings
  • #43: Paradise Interrupted by John S. Drew (first Trek work)
    #44: Where Time Stands Still by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore (Mere Anarchy Book 1: Things Fall Apart)
    #45: The Art of the Deal by Glenn Greenberg (Star Trek: The Untold Voyages)
    #46: Spin by J. Steven York & Christina F. York (Enigma Ship)
    #47-48: Creative Couplings by Glenn Hauman (Oaths) & Aaron Rosenberg (Collective Hindsight)
    #49: Small World by David Mack (A Time to Heal, Wildfire)
 
Excellent! Looking forward to reading 'em up in a few months.

Okay, several months. I'm an old Mac user though. I've learned to be patient waiting for ports. :D
 
David cgc said:
Okay, several months. I'm an old Mac user though. I've learned to be patient waiting for ports. :D
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:guffaw: I'm on a Mac too.

If only eBooks were as easily portable as print books, I'd be all for them. But the rights issues which make it annoyingly troublesome to move them from computer to computer or to print them (I recognize the irony) makes it difficult for me to find time to read them. It's like owning a book glued to my desk. :lol:

Edited to add: see my follow-up post below which makes it clear I don't hate eBooks . . . it's really Adobe that has caused my problems. At least, my problems with trying to read eBooks. I have way more problems outside of that which would be unfair to blame Adobe for.
 
^ They're just as easily portable as print books if you read them on your PDA. Lighter, too. :)
 
Sweet!

Too bad for the DS9 fans that it cuts off just before the DS9-R crossover in #50-51, but it's fine with me as those books were what finally prompted me to take the e-plunge. I just needed a DS9 fix. :lol: :thumbsup:
 
Q420, glad you finally took the plunge. :thumbsup:

Now, the idea of Corsi and Kira playing "good cop, bad cop" with Quark....... :devil:
 
Too bad for the DS9 fans that it cuts off just before the DS9-R crossover in #50-51, but it's fine with me as those books were what finally prompted me to take the e-plunge. I just needed a DS9 fix. :lol: :thumbsup:
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Well, yeah, but isn't it better to have all the DS9 stuff in one book? :D (The next planned book after Creative Couplings will be called Wounds and will include all the DS9 crossovers, #50, 51, 54, 55, and 56. :D)
 
*Rejoices*

Plus, six and seven novellas in either book. Good deal.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
 
Scott Pearson said:
David cgc said:
Okay, several months. I'm an old Mac user though. I've learned to be patient waiting for ports. :D
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:guffaw: I'm on a Mac too.

If only eBooks were as easily portable as print books, I'd be all for them. But the rights issues which make it annoyingly troublesome to move them from computer to computer or to print them (I recognize the irony) makes it difficult for me to find time to read them. It's like owning a book glued to my desk. :lol:
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There are tools for a Windows box to remove the DRM from lit files and then tools to convert to pdb to read on your palm. You might possibly be able to run these tools under Wine. But you'd also need to be able to run Internet Explorer under Wine as well as a registered MS Reader as well. So if I ever get a palm or some other portable reader besides the laptop, I'll be all set to convert formats. I use LIT now because I like the look of it in MS Reader and it works on all the desktops here and the laptop.
 
^ Ah, okay. There are 66 S.C.E. eBooks, starting with 2000's The Belly of the Beast by Dean Wesley Smith and ending with 2006's Many Splendors by self.

(There are also two print short stories: "Field Expediency" by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore in Tales of the Dominion War and "An Easy Fast" by John J. Ordover in Tales from the Captain's Table.)
 
Steve Roby said:
JWolf said:
There are tools for a Windows box to remove the DRM from lit files
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You might want to read this.
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The DMCA is unconstitutional (IMHO). So I really don't care if I break it. Besides, I'm not breaking the DRM in order to cheat the book companies. I'm doing so to make it easier for me. I don't know what will happen if I was to go to Vista as far s the DRM for MS Reader goes. How many times can I register MS Reader before I'm out of registrations. Also, I can backup my books on CD or DVD and not worry that sometime down the line if I ever want to get the backup copies, I'll be unable to read them.
 
"And there was much rejoicing!"

I've tried eBooks, but there's just no substitute for dead trees, IMHO. (I mean hey, bever unemployment alone would sky-rocket.) And cuddling up in bed with your laptop is just so uncomfortable... :p Looking forward to these - especially Creative Couplings.
 
Thanks for the heads up, KRAD.

It'll look great on my new shelves!

More importantly, can't wait to read it.
 
JWolf said:
Steve Roby said:
JWolf said:
There are tools for a Windows box to remove the DRM from lit files
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You might want to read this.
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The DMCA is unconstitutional (IMHO). So I really don't care if I break it. Besides, I'm not breaking the DRM in order to cheat the book companies.
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Doesn't change the fact that breaking the DRM is still not exactly legal. And discussing this here, of all places. Nicely tacky. As one of the people whose work you've probably hacked, I'm more than a bit ticked.
 
^ what Terri said. From the board rules:
As a fan site for a television show, intellectual property is an important topic for us. We cannot legally or morally condone tape-trading in episodes or downloading episodes online, and do not allow discussions on this matter. Any other copyright violations will also not be allowed.
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The discussion of removing DRM falls under the "other copyright violations", even though it is for your own use and you're not giving out copies or selling them.

JWolf, this is not the first thread you've voiced about stripping DRM off MS Reader files, I'd like to ask you not to do that again because, well, we don't want to get into trouble with the law/legislation. I know you're frustrated with the DMCA, as a fellow reader I understand fully, we're used to take our books everywhere, borrowing them, or lending them out, and have them there forever, however the board can't legally endorse these type of activities. Thank you. :)
 
Scott Pearson said: If only eBooks were as easily portable as print books, I'd be all for them. But the rights issues which make it annoyingly troublesome to move them from computer to computer or to print them (I recognize the irony) makes it difficult for me to find time to read them. It's like owning a book glued to my desk. :lol:
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Scott from the other thread I know you're using Adobe, so I'd like to say that it's not true for all formats. I chose ereader books from the beginning mainly because they can be easily ported and backed up etc. and when I recently bought a new laptop I had absolultey no trouble moving my files across and opening them again. Okay, you can't print them, or lend them out (which I don't do with any of my books anyway), but I can take them anywhere with the laptop or move them from computer to computer, and can have them 'forever' by burning onto a CD, so I'm pretty happy with this format. :)
 
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