Just wait til you have other books you want to order. Isn't it free shipping after 35$ or something? Thats what we always do... maybe its 45$... but we never pay for shipping...
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Just wait til you have other books you want to order. Isn't it free shipping after 35$ or something? Thats what we always do... maybe its 45$... but we never pay for shipping...
If you're ordering from a reseller on Amazon, there's no free shipping.
Amazon.ca does free shipping in Canada only for material bought from Amazon, not resellers; likewise Amazon.com does free shipping in the USA only for material bought from Amazon; Amazon.co.uk does the same for the UK, and I assume Amazon.de and Amazon.fr do the same in their respective countries.
Amazon.de does free shipping for books within Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein and Luxemburg without any minimum € amount.
There are some really odd holes in the ST back catalog on e-book; why, for instance, is Mosaic available, but not Pathways, which came out later?
Edit: not to mention that none of the Day Of Honor books are available, New Frontier 1-4 and 6 but not 5, the first three Invasion books but not the fourth... Something in the late 90s went wrong, kind of spastically, apparently
Edit: not to mention that none of the Day Of Honor books are available, New Frontier 1-4 and 6 but not 5, the first three Invasion books but not the fourth... Something in the late 90s went wrong, kind of spastically, apparently
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There are some really odd holes in the ST back catalog on e-book; why, for instance, is Mosaic available, but not Pathways, which came out later?
Edit: not to mention that none of the Day Of Honor books are available, New Frontier 1-4 and 6 but not 5, the first three Invasion books but not the fourth... Something in the late 90s went wrong, kind of spastically, apparently
The first Star Trek e-book of any kind was the first SCE title, "The Belly of the Beast," which came out in 2000 - August, I think. The back catalogue of Star Trek books was released as e-books later.
I seem to recall John Ordover asking fans for printed copies of some early Trek books that Pocket didn't have copies of in the archives, in order to be scanned & converted to e-text. My guess is that the missing titles, such as Pathways, were simply overlooked during the mass-scanning of old books in the first years of the 21st century. Not malicious, just an accidental oversight.
In short, what went wrong with Star Trek e-books in the late 90's was that they didn't exist yet.
Oh, no, I knew that; sorry, I was just trying to make a random joke. Out of all the back catalog, it seems like the late 90s is the only real trouble spot, and there's a lot randomly missing around then.
Maybe they started with the oldest stuff and were working their way chronologically forwards, vaguely, and then the project was halted at some point and never finished? I dunno.
Everything from 2000 on should have been released in eBook along with publication, right? They started doing that when the SCE stuff started happening, if I remember correctly.
Maybe they started with the oldest stuff and were working their way chronologically forwards, vaguely, and then the project was halted at some point and never finished? I dunno.
Everything from 2000 on should have been released in eBook along with publication, right? They started doing that when the SCE stuff started happening, if I remember correctly.
Well, I sort of got a reply from S & S on the lack of LIT format; no mention of pricing though:
Here's the email address it came from: ShopFeedback@simonandschuster.com
Not sure if this is going to have any impact on pricing, availability, or speed to market. Barnes and Noble have "acquired" Fictionwise/eReader.
http://www.ereader.com/bn.htm
Didn't B&N have an ebook division eons ago? Or was that Borders?
http://www.ereader.com/bn.htm
Didn't B&N have an ebook division eons ago? Or was that Borders?
^ I saw that yesterday, and a lot of their pricing seems to be in step with Amazon/Kindle offerings.
B&N used to offer e-Books through their site, but abandoned it some time back. I suspect they may have aquired Fictionwise/eReader because they're going to attempt offering competition to Amazon.
As for the pricing structure....I have no idea what that's about.
B&N used to offer e-Books through their site, but abandoned it some time back. I suspect they may have aquired Fictionwise/eReader because they're going to attempt offering competition to Amazon.
As for the pricing structure....I have no idea what that's about.
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