When those of you in the UK started complaining about no access to ebooks of my stuff in the UK-European English-language distribution area, I went to Orbit UK, looked at their site, and then emailed my UK editor.\u00a0 (I am\u00a0 lucky to have two great editors right now,\u00a0 Betsy Mitchell at Del Rey and Bella Pagan at Orbit UK.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anyway, Bella Pagan said she’d look into it, and time passed, and now I know the whole nitty-gritty story, as of her email today.<\/p>\n
E-rights weren’t in the Orbit UK contracts, though they were in the US contracts.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 DUH.\u00a0 Everybody’s DUH, I think, including mine (did I read the contracts?\u00a0 I thought<\/em> I had…)\u00a0 Orbit will be delighted to produce e-books of them once it’s legal to do so.\u00a0\u00a0 This does mean trans-Atlantic shipping of actual paper for me to sign (some I’ve already signed) and then trans-Atlantic shipping back, and three different agencies are involved–my US agent and two UK agencies.\u00a0 So it’s not an instantaneous thing, and then the books themselves have to be converted to the appropriate formats, which isn’t as quick and easy as you might think.\u00a0 (Those of my writer friends now converting their own out of print stories and books to put up on Smashwords & others are making it clear to the rest of us what the snags are.)<\/p>\n The “frontlist” books now have scheduled e-book release dates as follows:<\/p>\n OATH OF FEALTY – 4th <\/sup>March 2010<\/p>\n KINGS OF THE NORTH – 24th<\/sup> March 2010\u00a0\u00a0 (approx release date of print ed)<\/p>\n UNTITLED PALADIN\u2019S LEGACY 3 – 01 March 2012<\/p>\n THE DEED OF PAKSENARRION – 1st <\/sup>Jul 2010<\/p>\n A LEGACY OF HONOUR – 4th Nov 2010 (to match print date)<\/p>\n So: thanks to those whose complaints finally got my nose of out the current manuscript and into “Find out!” space, and many thanks to Orbit UK Editor for digging into the situation.<\/p>\n (And if I’ve gotten any of this wrong,\u00a0 UK Editor will set me straight and I’ll correct it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When those of you in the UK started complaining about no access to ebooks of my stuff in the UK-European English-language distribution area, I went to Orbit UK, looked at their site, and then emailed my UK editor.\u00a0 (I am\u00a0 lucky to have two great editors right now,\u00a0 Betsy Mitchell at Del Rey and Bella […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,38,5],"tags":[85,31,107],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-books","category-marketing","category-the-writing-life","tag-ebooks","tag-the-book-business","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}