There’s a lot going on.
By agreement with DAW, the Foreigner series is going into DAW e-book, which means available for Kindle and Nook.
And Audible is now mid-production with an audio version of Cyteen.
Intruder is now available for pre-order: check out your outlets.
by CJ | Dec 15, 2011 | Journal | 39 comments
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Hipster me will be getting the Kindle and hardback. 🙂 You’ve got vinyl collecting status on my bookshelf. Actually, you practically got a bookshelf. So much for space-saving.
Heh, I’ve got a Cherryh-shelf as well. Can’t wait to add to it! =D
Hehe me too, my Cherryh shelf has a lonely spot, waiting for Intruder to fill it… 🙂
I *think* have everything you’ve written in the Sci-Fi genre. I still have yet to fully flesh out my collection of the fantasy- and collaboration- stuff (Merovingian Nights comes to mind).
But I’ll tell you… Foreigner is sooooo good! The only other sci-fi I’ve re-read as many times is The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by R.A.H. 🙂
YAY….I just got my first kindle a few weeks ago, and this week was trying to find a little from each of my favorite authors. I found Foreigner (10th anniversary edition) but then it jumped all the way to Destroyer. I’m looking forward to filling in and adding to that start.
This kindle will be mine. I justified buying it once it went down to $79 thinking that it might be a good reading option for my mother (macular degeneration), but she’d never be able to deal with the fiddly little buttons to navigate. I guess that means I need to explore the touch version as well (grin).
Oh….Merovingian Nights….I loved that series! One of these days I’ll find the boxes with all those Sci-fi paperbacks.
My sister and I split on a Kindle for my parents for Christmas this year. They don’t get out much (nearest bookstore is an hour away) and usually have to wait for me to transport them books. Problem solved. I used to buy them books and then they’d give them back to me…and I’d have to store them. Arg. Books that I don’t care for. Now when I give them books they can’t give them back! Yeah, I’m young enough giving gifts to my parents is still all about me and my needs. 😀
Thank you all!—
Re macular degeneration—me mum had it; so she has my sympathies. And she could have manipulated the 3 buttons you regularly use: 1) the slider button on the top rim—you can feel it. Slide it to turn on. ‘Off’ is automatic if left for a while. 2) the paired buttons that are ‘next page,’ and ‘back’. You might have to do a little futzing for her to get the print size up, and you might have to walk her through the ‘picking a book to read’ process, but outside of that, if someone’s in reach to be able to start her on a book and get the type size to her comfort level—then all she has to do is push ‘next’ and be able to turn the machine on.
And thank you all for buying stuff! Keeps kibble for the kittehs and for us!
Luckily Mom is getting injections every 6 weeks which has stabilized her vision (fingers crossed). But I’m trying to prepare for ‘possibilities’….and it takes me forever to learn new tech stuff. I’ve got the newest version of the ‘basic’ kindle so buttons/toggles etc may be different. The ON switch is a little tiny thing at the bottom without much topography to help vision impaired find it and it’s NOT a slider….but a push button. I think I’d have to set up each book for her….which isn’t that daunting. Scrolling pages should be workable for her. But everything else is probably not workable….she hates computers and won’t have anything to do with them, so navigating menus etc isn’t anything she’s used to.
I found 4 Cherryh books to order on kindle….YAY! There are quite a few more I want…it’s been decades since I read most of them. I’ve got hardbound versions of the Foreigner and Chanur series but I love the option of bring them all with me wherever I go.
There ARE of course other readers…kindle’s not the only game in town. Ask mobileread forum for recs.
Well, of course there are other options. I’m working with the option I have in hand (shrug).
Intruder popped up on Amazon about a week ago for pre-order (done). Must admit the Audio Cyteen could be quite appealing – finally I will know how the names should be pronounced!
I pre-ordered it on the 3rd (along with a Christmas present for my brother).
Should be accurate: they call me now and again to ask: they’re in mid-recording.
I know my Cherryh books are nearly two shelves. These are books I will not mind repurchasing as ebooks. I cannot imagine giving up the hardbound versions however.
Much as I like Cyteen, I like Regenisis more. I like the maturing of young Ari. I have an image of Vanessa Redgrave as as Ari I (as in Mission Impossible). I think my image would be shattered if the reader for Cyteen did not sound like her.
Intruder is now showing the cover art. 🙂 I discovered, though, that my pre-order was not showing both the hardbound and Kindle editions. I’d ordered both, but separately. It took checking Your Account > Open Orders and Your Account > Your Digital Orders > Your Kindle Orders and nosing around to find Amazon does know I have both on pre-order. 🙂
Several of the Foreigner series were available prior to the agreement. Fans will be looking forward to the remaining volumes not yet available.
LOL. I think I have the better part of three shelves–all those original paperbacks, sci-ti book club hardbacks and the actual mass production hardbacks once the publication houses figured out people would buy them. Absolutely I’ll get both copies. I love the feel of holding a book, but I also like some clothes in my suitcase. I figure this is the best of both worlds and playing with my new Kindle Fire is just too much fun.
“Shelf” of Cherryh? You guys must have wide bookcases. I’ve gone to 2-1/2 shelves, and that’s without Russalka (I’m waiting for the re-edit) and the 3 in my “to be read” pile that I somehow missed (???). I’d like to turn my mom on to a Kindle, but she is a world class Luddite. She still has (and uses) a computer that runs Word Perfect from DOS, that has megabytes of RAM, slightly more megabytes of hard drive, and uses floppies that really are floppy.
Cyteen an audio book!!! oh fantastic! can you tell us who is reading it?
and yay for the kindle edition! very good news … though yes, I prefer my favourite books in the hand. Kindle is such a GREY reading experience.
CJ, do you know if the ebook version will be available at Kobo, and if it’ll come with DRMs ?
I just yesterday decided to boycott Amazon (http://readingandraytracing.blogspot.com/2011/12/hard-decision.html) and B&N /Nook won’t sell to France located people.
I’ve found the opposite is true for me. I’d be in a bookstore and use my iPhone to browse to Amazon to look up info on an author or book series because the bookstore is less than helpful. In fact Amazon is the first place I look for book info when I do anything. I’ve been abusing the system the other way for years. I did this a few weeks ago at Book People. I was trying to figure something out so I looked on Amazon before buying something from Book People. I always use Amazon regardless of where I buy something.
Amazon lets you preview most books and with ebooks preview the first chapter even. The last thing I’d think of doing is driving to a bookstore to do what I could do in my pjs at home, even if it were an app. With or without an app I could have used bookstores like that and I don’t. If I am in a bookstore I am meaning to come away with a book. Not wait for it to be shipped to me. And I can already preview ebooks. Don’t need to get out of bed for that.
I think the outrage over this latest thing is for an argument that has already passed. Maybe if it existed five years ago or so prior to ebooks taking off, but these days the argument and outrage seems archaic to how people actually live their lives currently. The battle over paper books is already over. This skirmish is comprised of stragglers who haven’t heard the news yet.
I really don’t know. It’ll be wherever Penguin is marketed, I’d think, so you might check. Almost all the big online guys do DRM: neither I nor DAW nor even Penguin has any say in that.
Patricia Briggs’ ebooks are published by Penguin, and the only store that I could buy them from, in Holland, is Kobo. They are heavily protected/DRMed, I cannot get them into Calibre to read with my other ebooks.
I had to get Kobo’s own ereader-program on my laptop just for these books. It’s supposed to be a form of Adobe reader, and I also tried the free reader-program from Adobe (downloadable through Kobo), but that was less pleasant to read in.
If anybody knows how to get Kobo-ebooks into Calibre, I’d love to learn. At the moment it’s a bit of an obstacle for me, as I don’t like having two separate e-libraries, one of which I can’t find the books for in my laptop anywhere I look (but the program can find them?!)- I might clean out some files I don’t recognise and find out a long time later that I’ve thrown away some favorite books.
I would expect that other Penguin ebooks would also be sold through Kobo; and if Kobo is their shop for Holland I would expect it to sell to France and the rest of Europe as well (maybe excepting the UK).
Oh joy! I am pre-ordered! 🙂 🙂 😆
Pre-ordered from my local bricks’n’mortar SF bookshop!
Oh, the joys of waiting… 😉
Not to brag or anything, but I have my own shelves of real CJC books, mostly hard back (and many autographed 😀 !!! for which abundant thanks). I would have more shelves full but I’ve had to turn some on their sides because of lack of shelf space. I believe they would take up at least three full shelves if allowed to spread.
But it is very nice to think of having the entire Foreigner series also on the ebook reader, for whenever the fancy arises to dip into them. It is a comfort to know ready access will be available.
PS, that cover is most intriguing. Bren is showing some age, isn’t he! (as are we all). And that small creature – what can it be? Caijeri knows, I suspect.
Heh heh, Cajeiri is probably closely involved with the creature – and any trouble which follows. . .
YAY, ebook! I’m very close to having no shelf space left and many shelves are already stacked double, which only works with mmpb. And while the covers have remained quite nice, they aren’t Michael Whelan anymore, so I don’t feel the need to have a hardcover.
Yay, Cyteen on audio! I wrote to ask if there was one a couple years ago, when you were still using the old blog – glad that the answer will soon be “yes” and not “no.”
Fire Sale, your gravatar is REALLY peculiar 🙂 🙂
Woot! I have a trip to my local bricks’n’mortar planned, so I’ll preorder there.
-and my Cherryh “shelf” is actually a 4-shelf cherry (lol)bookshelf! I don’t have *quite* everything, and I’m always trolling for Merovingen and some other shared worlds mmpb.