Dragaera

Hardcover vs. paperback

Wed Jun 5 14:32:46 PDT 2002

Didn't realize that this list was so active... had a couple e-mails in my 
in-box, then I looked in my presorted junk mail folder and found another 60 
odd messages hidden there...

As far as paperbacks go, they are (or used to be)cheaper than hardcovers, 
but with hardcover remainder prices being $5.00 to $7.00, they are not much 
of a savings anymore. I've bought the various books of the Vlad Taltos 
series published by Ace in paperback, most of them within a week of 
publication. I started buying Steve's books in hardcover with the 
publication of the Pheonix Guards and Five Hundred Years After. As someone 
mentioned previously, some authors are worth the extra cost of the Hardcover 
edition, for a couple reasons I believe... 1) The wait between books is long 
enough without waiting for a paperback edition to be published eventually. 
2) With frequent rereadings of my faverate titles and authors, the hardcover 
editions hold up better in the long run. 3) I read far fewer books than I 
used to, so I can afford to splurge the extra money on those authors whom I 
enjoy reading the most. I don't buy all my reading material in hardcover, 
but then again, I don't read every book or author several times over.

Quick Question - What is the status of "A Dream of Passion" now that Issolla 
has been written? Was it all a dream or a somewhat distorted premonition of 
future events? Or is it still just a scene from Vlad's future which we the 
readers are only given a quick glimpse to wonder about? Will it ever be 
reprinted in some form or other?

Abayo,
Steve Hubbell

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