From Closed Circle
The Writing Life, I, II, III
Faery Moon
Heavy Time, Hellburner
Rusalka, Chernevog, Yvgenie
Deliberations
From DAW and Harper via Amazon:
At the Edge of Space [Brothers of Earth/Hunter of Worlds];
Alternate Realities [Port Eternity, Wave without a Shore, Voyager in Night]
Foreigner, Intruder, Betrayer, Deceiver, Destroyer, Pretender, Deliverer, Inheritor, Explorer, Defender
Fortress in the Eye of Time, Fortress of Owls, Fortress of Eagles, Fortress of Dragons, Fortress of Ice,
Hammerfall, Forge of Heaven
Thank you for these lists. There are several books I’ve wanted to check out (from reading other people’s posts here) and it’s nice to have the ebooks listed in one place like this.
–Ken
Also on Amazon and elsewhere are all five Chanur books and the Faded Sun trilogy, Downbelow Station and several Alliance/Union books, and various others which may be out of print but are available used or occasionally new.
Audible.com has audiobooks of several of C.J. Cherryh’s books also.
One day soon, I hope your whole catalog will be available in E books.
I’ve got some books in “deep storage” that I wish from time to time were closer to hand, but I’ve never “lost” a book, nor would be unable to read them if I dug them out. The worst that would happen is paper embrittlement. (And that’s only because they aren’t old enough! Paper doesn’t have to get brittle with age. Paper that doesn’t is better for our waterways anyhow.)
So much for the post-Christmas budget after seeing the list of ebooks available. I have to rewrite the budget 😉
Likewise check out Jane’s and Lynn’s on Closed Circle.
Lynn’s:
Fantasy Daughter of the Bright Moon, The Wooden Sword.
Orion’s Children: Out of Time, Beyond Time, Taking Time, Downtime
Short fic: Beowulf and the Titan, It’s About Squirrels, Jerlayne; Seeking North (free)
Jane’s
Ringdancer: [steam-age fantasy] Ring of Lightning, Ring of Intrigue, Ring of Destiny, Alizant
short story: Moondancer and the Fountain of Blood.
Blood Red Moon [vampires in Seattle]
Short story: Flux
[sf] Netwalkers: Partners,Of Mentors and Mimetrons {Omnibus also available.]
Er, just double-checked things and I can’t find Inheritor, Explorer or Defender as an ebook from Amazon. Is there someplace else I should be looking?
I also have Conspirator as an ebook, which isn’t in the list. Dearly waiting/hoping for the rest of the Foreigner books (and others!) to hit the ebook format.
DId you try searching just ‘cherryh’ and it didn’t appear?
I’ve looked several different ways. Amazon has Inheritor, Explorer and Defender as audio books [which honestly, doesn’t interest me], but not those volumes as ebooks. The also have Precusor and a bunch of the Chanur books as audio too. Sigh. I got so exciting that there were more ebooks ready to snap up!
I don’t think 2 – 6 (which is Invader, Inheritor, Precursor, Defender, and Explorer) are available in legitimate e-books yet,(at least not through Barnes and Noble) although I hear there are some pirated versions out there. I keep hoping they’ll be out legitimately soon, I really would like to complete the collection in at least one format! 🙂 I’ve got a mix of paperback and hard-cover covering most of the series for dead-tree-books, but I’ve still got that darn obnoxious hole in the e-books. If they’re legitimately out there let me know!
Right. Foreigner 2 through 6 and the other books I mentioned above are (unfortunately) not out in ebook form yet. Oh, how I wish they were!
In Audiobooks from Audible.com there are several (all?) of the Foreigner books, all 5 of the Chanur books, Downbelow Station, Cuckoo’s Egg, and (IIRC) Serpent’s Reach.
CJ’s, Jane’s, and Lynn’s ebooks are available mostly at Closed Circle, but several are through their publishers on Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook. This is due to who owns the book and ebook rights.
Like others, I’m very eager to buy them as ebooks. Though for favorite authors/books, I also want the printed books. Ebook formats and devices *will* certainly evolve over our lifetimes. I still want printed books, just as I’m a fan of ebooks. There’s still something special about a real book, and it never needs batteries.
Oh GAWD, they’re up to it again….
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/alliance-union-universe-source-source-wikipedia/1105176198?ean=9781155422428
I’m having a loop-de-loop with B&N customer chat, trying to explain the difference between Wikipedia scrapings and a real book. There are other sellers purportedly selling the same book, but they have good ratings, and I think they got linked involuntarily. It’s not going well; I wonder if I’m in a Turing test.
Unfortunately that list just shows how much we’re missing out in the UK. Very few of your books are available electronically in the UK; even the books you list as available from “Amazon” are not available from amazon.co.uk 🙁
Amazon.co.uk has about the same range of your books as the various EPUB book stores in the UK, which is great if you’re not an Amazon fan.
It particularly frustrates me that none of the Foreigner series are available to us. It isn’t surprising that your back catalogue isn’t fully available yet, but they’re not even publishing your new books!
Who has to be hassled to fix this?
it’s awful, no foreigner books on kindle in the UK … grrrrrrrrr. well I am off to closed circle to get heavy time and Hellburner, nice additions to put on my kindle!
Good call -I’ve put my money where my mouth is and have just bought the Hellburner and Foreigner short story EPUBs from Closed Circle.
As another UK reader, I would be happy to join in any hassling which might improve the situation!
I’d say write (e-mail) DAW Books and ask. Writers are always complaining. When readers complain sometimes it gets more attention. Write daw@us.penguingroup.com and ask. It’s probably a rights-thing. And I’ll ask my agent.
I’ve just emailed them – thanks for the suggestion!
Just to illustrate the madness I checked the iTunes UK store – you can get 22 of your audio books (including all of Chanur and all of Foreigner, natch) but only 6 ebooks (Hammerfall, Fortress in the Eye of Time, Forge of Heaven, Fortress of Ice, Fortress of Dragons, Fortress of Eagles).
Argh 🙂
That means Harper-Collins is there, but DAW isn’t.
So perhaps DAW as a whole has distribution/rights issues in the UK?
Or hasn’t contracted British rights. We used to have deals with Orbit and other companies, but those were some time ago. This e-book concept is a very different sort of thing, and there’s a lot nobody’s clearly scoped out yet.
I have written my agent to ask the question.
For those who have gotten goodies from Closed Circle — and you have a Kindle, Kindle Fire — once you get the goodies on your computer, email them to your Kindle Account [check what it is on your account on Amazon]. What this does, is gets it in you cloud, so you effectively get a back up right off the bat.
Just to keep e-pub in the mix, Barnes and Noble have books 1 and 7-13 available.
I just checked on Kobo, where I (in Europe) get my ebooks; and the non-Foreigner books you listed are all there, exactly as listed (no Chanur, all 5 Fortress books, Hammerfall & Forge of Heaven; Alternate realities & At the edge of space).
There are some Foreigner books, but not the ones most recently converted: they have (had, for several months now)
1- Foreigner,
7- Destroyer,
10- Conspirator (not on your list, but by the same publisher: all of them come from Penguin Group US, so I suppose it is legal),
11- Deceiver,
12- Betrayer,
13- Intruder.
I’ll mail DAW about the worldwide non-exclusive rights they may have forgotten about, becuase they haven’t yet gotten the others you mention above. That’s:
3- Inheritor,
5- Defender,
6- Explorer,
8- Pretender,
9- Deliverer.
Verrry nice! Only 2 and 4 to go, once we get DAW to release them for ‘rest of the world’ residents as well!
I’m very glad you posted this, otherwise we’d not have known the books were ready and we should start asking about releasing them. Going to do that now.
Email sent to DAW too. It’s been annoying me for some time, so I’m glad we’ve got the right address to complain.
I’m so glad this came up; I’ve been checking out the DAW website periodically to check if 2-6 had been released as ebooks but just hadn’t made it to Barnes & Noble for some reason. I had attempted to find an email address on the Penguin site that might actually make to someone who might actually read it, but never found anything. Email has been sent.
Teegan, I’ve found that if I send a mail to a general customer service address (if I can find that anywhere), and then as a first sentence put in something like this “Please send this on to the person responsible for the ebook distribution of C.J. Cherryh’s Foreigner series” it tends to get to someone who can do something about this considerably more often than not.
Then you just state the facts, and that perhaps someone at either the publisher or the ebook-store has forgotten to set the rest-of-the-world non-exclusive ebook rights correctly (or the UK rights, if that’s what you’re concerned about).
It makes clear you do not want a response from Customer Service, who generally cannot do anything about these distribution rights, and gets it sent on to someone who can.
This whole ebook-distribution-rights stuff is so new, and they’re so busy getting a lot of backlist up as fast as they can, it’s quite easy for something like that to slip between the cracks unnoticed; but a mail like that will generally get someone to check it out and correct it.
This works best if you do know that a book is available as a legal ebook somewhere, for some people: the trouble is in finding that out, and finding that first general customer service mailing address.