Hi, After quite a bit more searching, I see there are some sites offering illegal copies, at least for some of the titles in Russian. So someone's done the work it seems! While I know we can't really blame content producers for sticking with a completely outdated distribution model, something is going to have to change. There is a product, I want to *buy* it but I *can't* (region, release dates, whatever), at least not legally. To be honest, if I can't legally obtain them while paying the publisher tax I'd much rather just give the money (say, twice what the publisher would give him - does that sound fair?) directly to Mr Feist or donate to his favourite charity, which ever is preferable.
Anyone know Mr Feist's favourite charity, perchance? :-) Cheers, Anton On 23 September 2013 02:28, Richard Williamson <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Anton, > > I don't believe the Russian language editions (published in the early 90s) > were ever offered in an ebook version. No, you can't have my copies :) > > You're seeing the same problem that back catalog in English is having -- > It costs money to set a book for eBook editions -- basically these books > existed prior to wide-spread use of word-processors, and so they don't even > exist in a standard electronic form. The question is who pays to have it > retyped, proofed, corrected, and then emitted in each eReader format > (ebook, pdf, whatever Amazon uses, whatever Nook uses, etc) and validated > on a reasonable set of eReaders for that kind. > > The publisher isn't going to see sufficient revenue unless they have a > built-in market, and the foreign language editions don't really. And large > publishers are all "I have the rights! The rights are mine! I paid for > them! and we aren't publishing an eMarket version because there isn't > enough profit in it! AND NO, YOU CAN'T HAVE THE RIGHTS even though you, as > a small company with a specific targeted niche, might see enough profit > /for your company/ to make it worthwhile!" > > You could make the case that the Spanish market is big enough, given its > ranking in the world table for number of native/additional speakers of it… > but how many of those speakers are in Western markets and have access to an > eReader? :/ > > You're only hope really is for Ray to sell the rights to a blockbuster > movie, the producers don't screw it up, and it brings new readers to the > table, in sufficient numbers to get the major rights-holding publishers to > go through that effort when they republish it in order to capitalize on the > hype. > > The above is all my opinion. You are welcome to shrug it off as > "blathering of an idiot". > > rip > > > On Sep 22, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Anton Melser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am living in France and have read both The Riftwar Saga and The Empire > Trilogy in French. Reading novels is pretty much the only way to get any > maturity in a language (yes, I have a linguistics degree!) and I'd like to > read some of the other series in either Spanish or Russian. Spencer > mentioned in a recent post that his son's English reading started improving > rapidly once he found novels he liked and foreign language reading is no > different! > > > > Amazon France has been fine for getting the ebooks in French but nothing > turned up for Spanish and there is no such thing as Amazon Russia... > > > > Does anyone know where I could purchase such ebooks? Do they even exist? > Might they soon? I guess I could go paper but since starting to use an > ereader I have zero desire to go back... > > > > Thanks, > > Anton > > > > -- echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc This will help you for 99.9% of your problems ...
