Shaun Rosel
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Question 1? Who is the current publisher with the rights to your Vorkosigan books. I would love to purchase the physical copies but I'm a bit OCD. I would love the covers to match and hopefully get a complete set. (Not tiny font would be good for my eyesight.
Lois McMaster Bujold
My print publisher for the Vorkosigan Series remains Baen Books, who have faithfully (if sometimes intermittently) kept them in print since 1986.
There have been lots of editions and different cover iterations over that stretch of time. The most recent that comes closest to what you want (including larger print) are their trade paperback reprints, but I'm not sure that list was ever completed. (Though the more recent titles have included going through a trade paperback morph between the hardcover and the mass-market paperbacks, so all the 17 titles may in fact all be covered out there in trade paperback.)
...Aaand I was going to link a sample, but I see that edition is out of print, defeating my own remark -- https://www.amazon.com/Warriors-Appre...
But there's a problem of scale for all publishers with paper reprints. Basically, they can seldom sell enough copies of newly printed old (aka "backlist") books to pay for the effort, especially with cheap used copies of the older titles being so easy to find on the internet these days. About the only time one would see that occur is with a very popular series that has a new ("frontlist") book coming out, to which the older titles can be attached.
Remember, a publisher's paying customers for paper books aren't readers, they are bookstores and chains, wholesalers, and other vendors. Those folks are the ones who have to decide whether to buy a book, and they must do so before any end user ever gets a chance to see it in a store. They don't want to lose money and go out of business either, so they mainly filter for salability.
Ta, L.
(Heh, and now I'm reminded of my own experimental foray into print-on-demand for a fresh trade paperback edition The Spirit Ring. When I posted the news, the very first comment anyone made on it was a guy complaining about the price and telling everyone they could get a used copy cheaper.)
My print publisher for the Vorkosigan Series remains Baen Books, who have faithfully (if sometimes intermittently) kept them in print since 1986.
There have been lots of editions and different cover iterations over that stretch of time. The most recent that comes closest to what you want (including larger print) are their trade paperback reprints, but I'm not sure that list was ever completed. (Though the more recent titles have included going through a trade paperback morph between the hardcover and the mass-market paperbacks, so all the 17 titles may in fact all be covered out there in trade paperback.)
...Aaand I was going to link a sample, but I see that edition is out of print, defeating my own remark -- https://www.amazon.com/Warriors-Appre...
But there's a problem of scale for all publishers with paper reprints. Basically, they can seldom sell enough copies of newly printed old (aka "backlist") books to pay for the effort, especially with cheap used copies of the older titles being so easy to find on the internet these days. About the only time one would see that occur is with a very popular series that has a new ("frontlist") book coming out, to which the older titles can be attached.
Remember, a publisher's paying customers for paper books aren't readers, they are bookstores and chains, wholesalers, and other vendors. Those folks are the ones who have to decide whether to buy a book, and they must do so before any end user ever gets a chance to see it in a store. They don't want to lose money and go out of business either, so they mainly filter for salability.
Ta, L.
(Heh, and now I'm reminded of my own experimental foray into print-on-demand for a fresh trade paperback edition The Spirit Ring. When I posted the news, the very first comment anyone made on it was a guy complaining about the price and telling everyone they could get a used copy cheaper.)
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No, that's just an artifact of the books being old. Brick-and-mortar bookstores having very limited shelf space, for every new title that i ...more
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