Thank you all. I wish I could do something about the e-book availability, but Penguin insists on the rights—but won’t put the e-book out simultaneously. Sigh. Please support me anyway. It’s not DAW’s fault. They’re a passenger on that situation, not directing it.
This is Betrayer’s official release date: it should ship now, if it hasn’t before.
by CJ | Apr 5, 2011 | Journal | 59 comments
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Received notice that my copy of Betrayer has been shipped. Should get it any day. I will always buy the hardcover for my library, I love being surrounded by real books, and I will get the e-book when available because it makes it convenient to read anywhere, anytime. I don’t understand Penguin’s reluctance to issue previous Foreigner books. As far as I know only three of them (Destroyer, Deliverer, Pretender) have been made available as e-books. It’s been a year since Conspirator’s been released, and obviously much longer than that for the first 6 books. I love these books so much and read them so often, that I would buy them as e-books, though I have them as hardcovers. Maybe I’ll just type them into html myself and add them to my e-book library!
I just checked with Amazon, and they had me down for a July 15 ship date!. Seems that I bought Dance with Dragons at the same time so the computer figured I would want them to ship together! I hope this is now straightened out, for an additional fee. (Also ordered Exile’s Gate, which I could find nowhere else and Inheritor, the hole in my Bren collection. No problems with April deliveries there!)
I still don’t get Exile’s Gate being, apparently, out of print when the trilogy has been published as a separate cover rather recently. Never read it.
As to the Foreigner series: It touches many chords for me. Being the child of a foreign language teacher, the brother-in-law of a foreign language teacher, a one-time student in Mexico, and the spouse of a college professor woman born in Argentina, who has lived in multilingual Washington Heights (NYC) for 30 years, reading this series is like sipping Benedictine after a very fine meal.
My wife and I also wrote a journal article recently on using interpreters in professional settings, and sold two like articles years ago to consumer magazines with a business audience.
Sheesh—! So sorry you’ve had that trouble.
The stance of the major publishers towards ebooks will forever baffle me. Talking about it with writer friends, it seems like the ideal solution would be to offer the ebook as an added value item for a dollar or two more when you purchase the hard copy. Make it cheap enough and a ton of people would go for it, and it’s an almost cost free means of increasing profit. People get their nice shelf copy and an e-reader copy for the bus or travel and publishers make a few extra bucks, everybody wins. Not to mention all the books just languishing in backlists that publishers seem intent on ignoring.
Well, at least I get my hardcover of Betrayer either today or tomorrow when the mail consents to making an appearance. And the Mariners are playing again, so I have some things to brighten up my rain soaked days.
I checked my order at SFBC. It is listed as backorderd, but still expected to ship 4/5/2011 I assume that is a shipment to them or maybee a drop ship to me
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I am glad to know it’s out there! Though now I’m going to have to figure out how to fit it in with all those other lovely hard covers.
As usual with books from DAW I got my pre-ordered copy of Betrayer way early and have both read and reread it. Between the read and the reread I reread the previous two in the story arc, just to get the whole story in one go.
Lots of love from me to you for writing those books. And like others I would buy every single book in the series as an ebook, if they were available. All of them.
Speaking of which I’d buy my other faves (notably all of the Company War books, and the Chanur books, at the very least) as ebooks as well, without hesitation.
I can’t wait. I’ve been counting the days!
Being in the UK now, it looks as though I’ll have to wait a week or two longer, but I’m glad to know it’s coming. Trouble is, if I do my usual thing of reading it right away, then rereading most of the rest of the series (I think last year I only went back to Destroyer), I’ll be even more behind with the rest of my to-read queue, which has already lapped itself.
This is not a complaint!
My copy of Conspirator, Deceiver, and Betrayer are due between the 7th and the 12th.
I was glad when another two of the Foreigner books came out in ebooks.
I just wish they could get those ebooks out more quickly, or cede you and other authors the rights, if they don’t intend to. …Or heck, somebody hire me to do the ebook onversion, even the data entry. HTML and CSS, I know. Ebook formats, I can learn.
I love your books. You’re one of the writers whose books I can buy on name alone, because I know it’ll be a good read, or often a permanently moving one.
Chanur, the Alliance-Union books, Faded Sun, and now Foreigner, and more, I’d love to have them as ebooks alongside the pb or hb I already own. — But I’ll just have to be patient and wait. It’ll happen somehow. — The publishing houses could make the money, if they’d get busy and put out the ebooks. …But I’d happily pay the author herself.
Some things are worth the price, budget crunch be hanged.
CJ, Amazon shipped Betrayer Monday night and it was waiting for me Tuesday afternoon when I got home. I dove right in and finished it in the early hours this morning. I will have to read it again at my leisure to pick up more of the nuances but once again a Foreigner series novel has presented a complex, sustained, self-consistent alien psychological and political world view through the eyes of the human protagonist and the atevi heir. Thank you so much. I must perfect that time machine so that I can read the next volumes without a year in between. ReadyGuy and readyDaughter will be reaing it over the weekend. In the meantime I will post a review on Amazon at lunchtime.
I just re-read Deceiver and am really looking forward to this, which will be in my hot little hands the minute I get paid. 😉
My acct info now lists “Betrayer” as shipped. so it was only back ordered the one day
To the extreme detriment of everything else I had planned to do today, Betrayer showed up in my Ingram shipment about an hour ago. Bye-bye, world. See you tomorrow, maybe.
CJ,
You may have mentioned this elsewhere on the site, but what method of purchase gets the most money for *you*?
Closed Circle. The writers get every penny of income from that site. Nothing is kept for Closed Circle itself: when it needs something, Jane and Lynn and I get together and buy it because CC has no finance at all.
12:36pm. It just arrived. Bye bye now.
Phil Brown
I will wait somewhat patiently for the e version. Penguin is rapidly becoming my least favorite publisher. it’s a shame that they have the authors whose books I want. sigh
Report from England:
“Hello,
We are pleased to report that the following item will dispatch sooner than expected:
C. J. Cherryh “Betrayer: Foreigner #12″
Previous estimated arrival date: April 14 2011
New estimated arrival date: April 09 2011”
Yay!
One is exercising patience, because one is ordering the series from the local library system, and they come from all over the state, involving logistics and transit times. One further wishes to read the series in the appropriate order, and not be tempted by receiving newer books before the older ones have been savored.
Thank heavens I had a couple of CJ’s books on hand; this flu-thing is nothing to be trifled with! I am not whipping through the series with my usual speed, because I am trying to pick up the nuances rather than inhale them wholesale.