I'm creating this thread to put together a list of all of the Trek books that aren't available as e-books. Novels All Bantam novels Ashes of Eden The Return Avenger Enteprise: The First Adventure Novelizations James Blish TOS novelizations Star Trek Logs (TAS novelizations) Behind the Scenes For this one, so little is available I'm listing what is available as an e-book The 50 Year Mission (both books) TNG 365 the TNG Companion Voyages of Imagination New Life and Civilizations: Exploring Star Trek Comics In Universe Non-Fiction The Illustrated Handbooks Special Note: The Enterprise Haynes manual is available as a Nook Book and on Google Play, but not for Kindle
I'm not finding the Deep Space Nine Companion as an ebook on Amazon. Is it available from another source? If people are really paying over $90 for the book, it might be the right time to sell it. I've read it at least five times and have most of the interesting stories memorized by this point.
The books published by Bantam (Blish adaptations, the novels through to 1981) and Del Rey (Foster adaptations) would not have accounted for eBooks as part of their license agreements for obvious reasons, so we'll likely never see them in that format.
You might want to clarify that these are the English versions that are not available. Shatner’s books are available as ebooks in German.
Do we know why these ones haven't been made available? Also, were you planning to include comics compilations? I don't think Crew or The Last Generation were ever made available digitally.
I was just reading in the case of “Star Trek Lives!” the rights reverted to the author/editor of that book, and she’s tried releasing it digitally, but she can’t get her co-authors, Sondra Marshak or Joan Winston’s estate to give her permission.
Can't speak to the Shatner books, but my guess is that they don't have electronic versions of Enterprise: The First Adventure, and nobody's made the effort to scan it.
For the Bantam novels and Foster adaptations, their respective publishers would likely have to pay to secure those rights from CBS, and for the non-fiction books not specifically written as works for hire, they'd have to secure the rights from the original authors (or their families/estates). If that sort of thing was going to happen, someone likely would've done it by now. Someone counting beans somewhere may have run the numbers and decided it wasn't worth the time and expense. On a semi sorta related note, I'm actually surprised The Making of Star Trek didn't get a minty fresh new print edition for the 50th anniversary.
All of the 1990s YA DS9 novels and the TOS, TNG and VGR Starfleet Academy novels aren't available as eBooks either.
And on eBook only, "The Magic of Tribbles: The Making of the DS9 Episode, Trials and Tribble-ations" by Terry J. Erdmann.
Very, since Pocket/Gallery has an exclusive license and the Bantam/Spectra and Ballantine/Del Rey contracts were signed before eBooks were commercially viable. Interesting that Pocket actually did a complete 1995 three-volume set of "Log" reprints (the previous 1993 Del Rey US three-volume set had omitted "Log Ten") for their international market, although there has since been a 2006 Del Rey US complete five-volume trade paperback set.
Return to Tomorrow: The Filming of Star Trek — The Motion Picture was released as a Kindle ebook within the month.
I haven't done an exhaustive search, but for the handful that *are* available (since it's easier to list those, rather than the ones that aren't ), I've found: ST: TNG Starfleet Academy #1: Worf's First Adventure ST: DSN #1: The Star Ghost ST: DSN #10: Space Camp As mentioned, not exhaustive, so there may be more?
Also, for whatever reason, also the German editions of the YA adaption of Generations and the DS9 novel Gipsy World.