Besides the U.S, Canada, UK and Australia, where else are Trek books available?
Star Trek Books Availability
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The world over. Any comic shop can import US editions via the Diamond comic distribution catalog.
However, some countries do their own local editions (or used to). Canada and the UK used to reprint local editions of ST novels. Canadian Pocket ST had a little maple leaf on the cover, and several companies (Titan, Granada, Futura, etc) have been responsible for UK editions, sometimes even renumbering the old numbered titles. I've seen ads for Japanese translations in the old "Japanese Starlog", and one of the posters here does the German translations sold in Germany, but not every title makes it to translation.
^ Among my many book purchases from local stores when I was stationed on Okinawa were Japanese translations of a handful of Star Trek novels, including the novelizations of the first four movies. I think they stopped creating such translations years ago, though my mother-in-law has picked up a few Trek items for me during her various trips to Japan. I have a sizable selection of the Japanese edition Star Trek Fact Files, and one or two non-fiction books (non-Pocket).
Assuming you are only talking about translated books, Germany had almost everything translated up to the middle/late 90`s, then the then publisher Heyne started to scale the number of publications back more and more until basically the only thing they published were the Shatnerverse books, before they stopped altogether.
Earlier this year a new publisher Cross Cult started to publish translations of Star Trek Books and so far they have published the first three Vanguard books (IIRC Dayton has a copy of his and Kevin's) and they have currently scheduled the fourth and fifth for a (more or less) simultaneous release with the originals in May`09 and December`09 respectively.
They also have the first four Titan novels scheduled for release throughout 2009.
You can find their official Star Trek site here.
Earlier this year a new publisher Cross Cult started to publish translations of Star Trek Books and so far they have published the first three Vanguard books (IIRC Dayton has a copy of his and Kevin's) and they have currently scheduled the fourth and fifth for a (more or less) simultaneous release with the originals in May`09 and December`09 respectively.
They also have the first four Titan novels scheduled for release throughout 2009.
You can find their official Star Trek site here.
I think the original poster was going by the mis guided and some what out of date assumption that Ireland is still part of the UK!
It's also a safe bet that where ever English is spoken as a major language, then Books are sold in English.
how do you find out which books have been translated into which languages, if at all?
yes, my interest is purely selfish.
yes, my interest is purely selfish.
I guess Pocket Books' sales department should know it, since I assume they're selling the International translation rights.
FWIW Titan: Schwert des Damokles, the German translation of your Titan novel will be published in August 2009.
And may the schwerts be with you.
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
Totally going off on a tangent here, but I'm struck by the fact that the English and German words for "sword" are so similar -- or rather, that "sword" is a Germanic/Anglo-Saxon word rather than Latin-derived. I mean, I'm surprised that all the Norman knights and nobles who conquered England and introduced so much Latin-derived vocabulary into English didn't want to use a classier, Norman name for their weapons.
Yeah it's truly amazing that some words sound so similar in the different European Languages, I just thought that what I and my fellow English persons know as English was fully formed and not because of the countless invasions throughout history our fair isle hashave had to cope with!
For anyone not familiar with it, the above is meant to be irony, but, it may just come across as a very pitiful form of sarcasm!
Yeah it's truly amazing that some words sound so similar in the different European Languages, I just thought that what I and my fellow English persons know as English was fully formed and not because of the countless invasions throughout history our fair isle hashave had to cope with!
For anyone not familiar with it, the above is meant to be irony, but, it may just come across as a very pitiful form of sarcasm!
Honestly, it just came across as being rude. Christopher is well aware that the language of the English developed as a result of invasions, conquests, and culture-mixings, as indicated by the fact that he was musing over why the Normans adopted the Germanic term for "sword" rather than introduce into English a Latin-derived name. To imply that he's unaware of the role of invasion and conquest in the development of the English language as you just did seems odd.
Actually I was wondering if I can get any of the new stuff in The Middle East (specifically Israel) as I'm going to want Destiny 3 while I am there.
But rather then start a new thread, I'll ask here: Anyway to get an advanced copy of the 3rd Destiny book so I can read all 3 while I'm there?
But rather then start a new thread, I'll ask here: Anyway to get an advanced copy of the 3rd Destiny book so I can read all 3 while I'm there?
Download the eBook when it's available, then buy the MMPB when you return. Didn't the first part come out in its eBook almost simultaneous to the MMPB?
Or Google some Israeli comic shops and email them to ask if they order from Diamond.
