Just got Heavy Time and Hellburner loaded into Closed Circle.
Heavy Time and Hellburner are up! 2 ‘new’ books are up!
by CJ | Jan 7, 2010 | Journal | 24 comments
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I have purchased both.
I have downloaded the files.
I will leave further info after I have had time to open and browse them.
This is the beginning of my obtaining eBooks of the (in some cases badly worn)hard copies I have.
Thanks for what you do.
You’re welcome. Enjoy!
I love the covers on these two. Who is the artist? I haven’t probed down into the copyrights to find them. I am thrilled to have them on my Kindle. My books are in two different places and Inever have what I want where I am at the moment, so this is a great improvement.
The artist would be me and Jane. I did the concept and the initial picture on Heavy Time: Jane added another rock for dimensionality and worked out the lettering…not to mention some technical futzes to make it display well.
On Hellburner, I did the image; Jane did the lettering, added some filters, and figured how to make the letters bend.
Just a thought for the store: I know that Pearls Before Swine (one of my favorite comic strips) has a store that allows you to specify that you want a particular strip on a particular item (mug, t-shirt, mouse pad, that sort of thing). Of course, they are teamed up with comics.com, so that might be cost prohibitive for you, but it’s something to consider. If nothing else, I’d think that there would be a market for copies of some of your and Jane’s art. Would that be possible with CC?
I will admit that “your and Jane’s” doesn’t look right to me, but it would be “your art”, so….
Downloaded and backed up. Will load on Kindle tonight, and probably just answered the question, “What will my weekend novel be?” (I’m reading so much with Kindle that I have to limit fiction to weekends, or I would never do anything else. Nonfiction is ok anytime.)
Question: do the Closed Circle publications have ISBN numbers? I am entering my new CC editions in Librarything and I want to be sure to differentiate them from the old versions so they don’t get combined or something. But I dont see ISBN numbers in the opening pages.
Here’s CNN coverage of new ebooks at CES:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/08/ces.ereader/index.html
Kokipy, I see someone put a disambiguation notice on Faery Moon; I put one on Faery in Shadow. They are different enough to be treated as different titles in LT. I don’t know how much Jane’s Netwalker series has changed; they might well combine with the printed books so that people who have either edition will be linked. Heavy Time and Hellburner also should probably combine as works even though the ebooks are a different format. What I’d like to see in LT, and have not taken time to investigate, is a way to clearly note my copies as ebooks, and make it easy to see what ebooks people have, and that these linked titles are available as ebooks. But this is really an issue for LT.
Thanks for that info, arethusa. I created kindle and ebook collections for these books as well as those I obtain from other sources, and also tag them as kindle books. That kind of thing might help. I have never really understood combining at LT. I don’t want my separate versions combined within my own library, for example, but I would certainly want to be able to link to others that have them, either or both of them, if you receive my meaning. I am so unclear on all this internally that I am sure I am not making sense!
We have no isbn numbers because they cost fiercely, and we won’t be offering for sale in any physical stores, which is where you have to have them: it’s a cost thing. Faery Moon has a new copyright; Faery in Shadow will appear under its first copyright notice. That would help you set them separate. Heavy Time and Hellburner are under their original copyright, because they are not essentially different from the first edition. If there is prior copyrighted material on which the new copyright is based, I have tried to be clear in that on the Reverse Title Page.
Thanks, most helpful. I think I’ll be able to differentiate them in LT from the originals more than adequately with references to the publisher and to the publication date, as well as to their ebook status.
I see the disambiguation notice- clearly takes care of the combining risk. I think it must have been Reading Fox, who also wrote a really terrific review of it (as well as of Uplink and Groundties). He is a very skilled LT’er.
Very happy with my copy, thanks!
We have to thank Reading Fox for turning us all onto LibraryThing!
Loved the dedication to “Wave Without a Shore” on both Heavy Time and Hellburner. CJ, you have quite a crew here!
We certainly do!
Well, wouldn’t you know it! After much searching I purchased signed copies of Heavy Time and Hellburner to put on the bookshelf. They only arrived last week and now i can get them in e-book format. Oh well! Still they are nice to look at and in as-new condition too. I also purchased a signed copy of Finity’s End direct from Yard Dog. I plan to complete the A/U series in hardcover and then everythinthg else in e-book. Love your work, keep ’em comin.
Ow! Well, we will be doing Rimrunners! I can warn you of that one! And welcome!
I like the new books but I have always two problems
1. In certain files (PDF for example) no total justification
2. Absence of a chapters table.
Except for those things, I am content of these old books.
And Good Year to you and Jane. Here in Toulouse, France , we are blocked under the snow. It’s not normal to have 5 to 10 cm for us.
It would be possible to do total justification in the pdf: in the flowable text files, I found it produced a gappy read on some devices, so opted not to do that: but pdf is a different beast, and is ‘fixed’ in place. I am trying to figure out the ‘chapters’ table, and have not yet gotten it to behave.
Wow! Snow in Toulouse has got to be unusual. The central US is getting a lot of snow, but up in the north west where we are, we expect snow, and are getting very little, interspersed with bands of heavy rain…
Just a thought for driving business to CC: Whenever I was looking for an out-of-print (ie: not-in-bookstore) book, the first spots I go are eBay and AbeBooks. Anyway that you could become a store on those two? I’m not entirely sure how it would work or what it would cost, but it probably get you a lot of eyeballs.
It’s a thought. I’ll look into it.
Update: I looked. Alas, almost everything wants 25.00 or more a month to let you set up a store in their shop…plus they want a cut of every sale above and beyond that, and in some cases they demand a slice of your rights, to boot. Copyrighting is money. But we can manage that. ISBNs are prohibitively expensive. Everybody’s making their money by providing you a site or a number or an ID…mmmmm, maybe we should set up a “we’ll display your product cheap” site…
Nooo. That way lies madness…I’d rather write books.
I’m having a real problem with references to Emory and Wallingsford in Heavy Time and HellBurner. Can anyone help me out?
Thanks!