no, he means actual paper books as opposed to e-books.
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Sorry, I thought "hardcopy" was an accepted term for eBooks released in paper form.
I didn't mean hardcover. The trades I'm talking about were paperbacks.
You remember differently. It was extremely rare in the early 80s to know the titles of more than two or three titles in advance. We used to scrounge for every skerrick of information, usually from US fan club newsletters. Very often there was no story description whatsoever, nor a visualisation of the cover art until the day you saw the latest novel sitting on a shelf. Sometimes "Starlog" would be a good source for a run of a few titles, then it was back to "Locus", and then a random publicity flier from Simon & Schuster. They were very lean years.
Heck, in 1981, I couldn't even get a reliable list of all the published Bantam titles until I went to the city public library and went through every annual edition of "Books in Print" myself.
or maybe just maybe things were a little different in parts of the states.
but i remember seeing the different distribution lists that different book stores ordered from.
such as from ingram.
and while this is more true of mainline sf i heard directly from some authors about books they had coming out from them.
now sometimes might be suprised because a book might be shipped early and would pop up on a shelf.
^ When I was stationed at Camp Pendleton in the mid 80s, I used to go to this one newsstand/book shop in Oceanside. The owner of the store had a three-ring binder containing cover flats for books coming out in the next 3-4 months. That was how I knew what Star Trek books were coming, and when. 
I agree. I imagine that's what a lot of people would think when they read that statement. It seems to imply that the books might clash with the development of the script for the next movie.
^ When I was stationed at Camp Pendleton in the mid 80s, I used to go to this one newsstand/book shop in Oceanside. The owner of the store had a three-ring binder containing cover flats for books coming out in the next 3-4 months. That was how I knew what Star Trek books were coming, and when.
But with the novels coming out approx. two to four months (to six months!) apart in the early 80s, you'd still be lucky knowing more than one or two titles in advance that way.
Well, not that it should matter, 1986-88 wasn't "the early 80s."
Sometimes it felt like it, as I recall. They went on forever.
^ This much is true. Personally, I blame Duran Duran.
Well, by then, all the Pocket Book ST novels were reliably bimonthly - and were also being listed three months in advance in the old Capital (now Diamond) orderpak/catalog in the comic shops so, yeah, by then it was quite easy to find out upcoming titles. Things went wild, licensing wise, after ST IV. And with TNG the novels went monthly.
My original post was looking back at pre-1980 till May 1983, when things were rather more random.
^Yes, I know all this. I was there.
Yes. And here is that statement, just in case some people have problems reading for implication.
It is a different inference to take this to mean the team developing the movie scripts decided they didn't want other people writing "nuUniverse" stories. It seems clear to me that they are referring to "his vision" in a respectful manner, and stepping back to allow him his creative freedom. I just don't know how it can be read any other way, unless you think it's a lie.
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Duran Duran were/are actually brilliant.
^ Which makes me like them or their music.....not the slightest bit more, actually. To each their own.
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