Letting a book that doesn't sell much go out of print? Not a big deal. The author can republish them or sell the rights to another published and so on. Let a book that sells five times more than the rest of the author's books that are still in print make in a month go out of print? Not cool.
The reason I'm even writing this is that my favorite Star Wars books of all time, the X-Wing series, are going out of print. Even though those are some of the best Star Wars books in existence. Even though Michael A. Stackpole is one of the best author's in the Star Wars Expanded Universe - seriously, he's right up there with Timothy Zahn, Kevin J. Anderson, and Matthew Stover, all of whom have written books I absolutely adore. Even though those are the books I recommend to everyone who wants to read the EU. Even though no Star Wars books ever go out of print (or so it seems).
Seriously, Bantam? Seriously? You do that now? That's just stupid.
I hope Michael Stackpole manages to get them republished or something. Those are seriously some of the best books I've ever read, period. They're amazing Star Wars books, and they're just amazing in general. If you can get them and are into that sort of thing, do. It's worth it. And check out the other stuff Stackpole has written, such as I, Jedi. That's another amazing book. The man is an amazing writer.
Information on this event is here, on Stackpole's website/blog - Stormwolf.
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
What A Great Day...
My day has been amazing. It's sort of late now, so I'm going to bed right after this, but I had to post this.
It started out as usual, but then I found out that my composition class had been canceled, as Dr. J was sick this morning and he couldn't get an e-mail out or anything.
So, I got to spend my morning relaxing and working on my research project a bit. I ended up going over to the library to get a book, and then I had more free time. I talked to Dr. L, then had lab, which was really fun and only lasted an hour and a half. That's REALLY short of Biology labs. They're usually two and a half to three hours, at least.
After that, I went over to the campus post office to mail something. Then I went over to the mailboxes only to find that I had a package to pick up. So, I backtracked across the campus to the post office to get my package. I ended up with an Amazon package. I had absolutely no idea what it was.
So, I went back to my dorm and opened it, only to discover that my mom had sent me a present. She sent me the DVDs of the Star Wars Original Trilogy (A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi) that I had asked her to add to my Christmas list because I only had them on VHS and I wanted to watch them. My day was absolutely made by that. I had been having a really good day, but that made my day amazing.
It started out as usual, but then I found out that my composition class had been canceled, as Dr. J was sick this morning and he couldn't get an e-mail out or anything.
So, I got to spend my morning relaxing and working on my research project a bit. I ended up going over to the library to get a book, and then I had more free time. I talked to Dr. L, then had lab, which was really fun and only lasted an hour and a half. That's REALLY short of Biology labs. They're usually two and a half to three hours, at least.
After that, I went over to the campus post office to mail something. Then I went over to the mailboxes only to find that I had a package to pick up. So, I backtracked across the campus to the post office to get my package. I ended up with an Amazon package. I had absolutely no idea what it was.
So, I went back to my dorm and opened it, only to discover that my mom had sent me a present. She sent me the DVDs of the Star Wars Original Trilogy (A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi) that I had asked her to add to my Christmas list because I only had them on VHS and I wanted to watch them. My day was absolutely made by that. I had been having a really good day, but that made my day amazing.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
What A Day
Today has been amazing, just like a lot of my days. I'm still really happy right now, despite the fact that I've pretty much lost my voice at this point. I think it had something to do with laughing so much today....
I spent about 9:30 AM until 11:25 AM in the library looking for books for my English research project. We have to write about an event that happened in the last seventy years or so, with nothing later than 1999. My topic is Star Wars, the phenomenon it has caused in the culture, with a bit of the mythology and a few other things tossed in depending on what I find. I ended up with 16 things requested from the reference library with what I found, plus another that I need to get from the public library here. And then I had to run and talk to my English and Chemistry profs about a couple of things. Then I had lab.
The fun part was dinner. I was having dinner with Armadillo (who went home for the weekend, since it's a long weekend, though his computer was stolen like right before he left...) and Tank when a couple of our other guy friends joined us.
Phantom and Private, as I will temporarily dub them for lack of better nicknames, went with us back to Armadillo's room to watch the Turkish Star Wars...which was just sad, I should point out...and a few other things in the kitchen next to his room (he and his roommates have the room at the end of the hall, like me and my suitemates do) and watched that and Turkish Superman Returns...it was quite entertaining.
We managed to spend the remaining hours discussing a Star Wars parody that we're going to try. Who knows if it'll work, but we're already working on the script and everything, and we've got big plans...and we're going to be trying to do it on five college students' budgets...which would equate to basically no money, since we're all pretty tight on the cash it looks like...
Anyway, I need to go to bed. I'm about to fall over....
I spent about 9:30 AM until 11:25 AM in the library looking for books for my English research project. We have to write about an event that happened in the last seventy years or so, with nothing later than 1999. My topic is Star Wars, the phenomenon it has caused in the culture, with a bit of the mythology and a few other things tossed in depending on what I find. I ended up with 16 things requested from the reference library with what I found, plus another that I need to get from the public library here. And then I had to run and talk to my English and Chemistry profs about a couple of things. Then I had lab.
The fun part was dinner. I was having dinner with Armadillo (who went home for the weekend, since it's a long weekend, though his computer was stolen like right before he left...) and Tank when a couple of our other guy friends joined us.
Phantom and Private, as I will temporarily dub them for lack of better nicknames, went with us back to Armadillo's room to watch the Turkish Star Wars...which was just sad, I should point out...and a few other things in the kitchen next to his room (he and his roommates have the room at the end of the hall, like me and my suitemates do) and watched that and Turkish Superman Returns...it was quite entertaining.
We managed to spend the remaining hours discussing a Star Wars parody that we're going to try. Who knows if it'll work, but we're already working on the script and everything, and we've got big plans...and we're going to be trying to do it on five college students' budgets...which would equate to basically no money, since we're all pretty tight on the cash it looks like...
Anyway, I need to go to bed. I'm about to fall over....
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