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| Taral-DLOS wrote: |
| Darth_Henning wrote: |
My suggestion would be...all of them.
Especially since they've stopped inserting some of them into paperback reprints of hardcovers that they relate to. This bothers me significantly.
They really need to do something to get them in print IMHO. |
NO.
Under no circumstances should they resume punishing those who pay $20.00 more per book. I buy hardcovers, I give them my money, I should not be then forced to pay an additional $7-10 for exclusive content.
I would, however, not object to resume publication of thematic short story collections. |
If you choose to buy the hardcovers, that's a choice. Including exclusive content in the paperbacks isn't any form of 'punishment' IMHO.
So many people I know who buy the hardbacks comment how much they find the medium superior (not sure if that's why you like them, or if you have another reason). If that's the case, fine. But the paperback buyers should have the opportunity to get something in return for having to wait to get our hands on it.
Given that they seem to have lost interest in publishing short-story collections (LTOTS being an exception that may hopefully point to future changes), paperback reprints are the only real way to get those out there. Especially since a LOT of the short stories/e-books published relate directly to specific hardcover releases.
For example, The Teneubrius Way (sp?) was written to directly tie into Darth Plageus. Logically it should be included in the paperback to complete the story.
And as for commenting that you have to pay 7-10 more for "exclusive content" in the paperback, keep in mind that you'd have to pay 5-7 for the Insider in which the story was originally published if you wanted to get the story without buying the paperback.
If you're already buying the Insider, then you have the story anyway and you have no reason to care about whether its in the paperback or not. If you're not, you're paying the same or slightly more to get the short story bundled with the novel. You're paying extra either way.
Cutting out those reprints from the paperbacks is just punishing the paperback fans.
EDIT: also, I see you're a fellow Canuck. If you have a Chapters/Indigo membership, you can usually get the new hardcovers online for 35% off the cover price the day of release. So if you've been paying full coverprice, you're definitely overpaying. Just a heads up.
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