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Ebooks of Stephen King’s Backlist Available Now!

 

DesperationIt must be a big deal that a chunk of Stephen King’s backlist is available from Simon and Schuster in ebook editions, starting today, because they sent me 23 separate emails telling me about it. Unfortunately, they did not send ONE email with all the information and titles, so you will have to go to their website and go through about the first three pages of recently released ebooks (link) to find them.

The ebooks are priced between $7.99 and $9.99. If your copy of one of these is worn out, or you are looking to add his books to your ebook collection, this might be a nice way to start off a bookish new year.

Titles include:

  • Wizard and Glass
  • Misery
  • Thinner
  • The Tommyknockers
  • Roadwork
  • Waste Lands
  • Needful Things
  • Different Seasons
  • The Dead Zone
  • Four Past Midnight
  • Rose Madder
  • The Running Man
  • IT
  • Cujo
  • Dolores Claiborne
  • Skeleton Crew
  • Eyes of the Dragon
  • The Gunslinger
  • The Dark Half
  • Desperation
  • Firestarter
  • Christine
  • The Drawing of the Three
  • Insomnia

 

 

Here’s to a wonderful year of reading in 2016!

Posted on January 1, 2016 by , Reply

Sign of the Times

Time to get mad. Libraries got the message a long time ago to give you what you want, but publishers apparently missed that bandwagon. Want ebooks at the library? Think it’s wrong to keep them out of the hands of hungry readers? Better let the publishers keeping them out of your hands know how you feel.  You’ll find their addresses below, courtesy of Librarian in Black.


Posted on February 15, 2012 by , Reply

Penguin Throws Libraries a Rotten Egg

You can add Penguin to the list of “Big Six” publishers refusing to sell digital copies of their books to libraries.

Penguin announced on Monday that it will no longer sell digital books for new titles, and has disabled the ability to download ebooks in Kindle format in ALL of its titles. This is so frustrating to me! One of my big gripes with the Kindle was always that it used a proprietary format and that Amazon wouldn’t allow Kindle books to be lent in libraries. As of September 21, that changed, and it was HUGE for both libraries and library users who owned Kindles. Circulation statistics for ebooks went way up, and libraries spent a big chunk of money buying Kindle books. Now that Penguin has disabled Kindle functionality, I hope it also plans to refund some money and offer an apology for leaving libraries to deal with huge numbers of irate library patrons. Further, now Random House is “actively reviewing” its policy- although it’s hard to know what that actually means.

So here’s where we are with the “Big Six” publishers. Macmillan and Simon and Schuster refuse to sell ebooks to libraries at all. Hachette, and now Penguin, decline to sell frontlist titles in digital format, Penguin has disabled Kindle functionality, and HarperCollins requires libraries to re-license an ebook after 26 circulations (although that’s apparently under discussion). Who exactly are the winners in this situation?

Frankly, this stinks for pretty much everyone. Surely, publishers, authors, libraries, and readers can come up with something workable? Even if there are compromises that need to be made, it would be nice to find a way to make things come out with the sunny side up.

Posted on November 23, 2011 by , 2 comments