Thank you! Thank you!

[rolanni]

My thanks to everyone who took the time to answer the poll and/or to comment on the order in which Ace should re-issue the mass market editions of the Liaden Universe® novels. The Nice Editor Lady (hereafter referred to as TNEL) has been provided with information. And now we all get to wait and see what she does with it.

TNEL did say that, when the books come out (and in whatever order), they will hit the stands at the dizzying rate of one a month. This means that readers who are missing books in their set are going to have to be nimble -- and! you are going to have to warn your friends who haven't been able to find the books except at usurious prices at ABEbooks to watch the skies very very closely. We have asked TNEL to let us know as soon as she knows when the first book is scheduled to be published, and we will make as big a noise as we know how to make.

Again, thanks to everyone who took the time to help us out!

Comments

How does issue rate related to . . . withdrawal rate? Return Rate?

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Not quite sure what the right term is, but does being issued at the rate of one a month also indicate something about the rate that they will be taken off the shelf?

Re: How does issue rate related to . . . withdrawal rate? Return Rate?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

does being issued at the rate of one a month also indicate something about the rate that they will be taken off the shelf?

That part rests with the bookstore. Our "local" Barnes and Noble keeps backlist on the shelf. Some other bookstores apparently give a book three weeks and its gone.

I think that what Ace is after is a kind of critical mass. The last time they issued the mass markets, they came out one a quarter, which may have been too long an interval for people to remember to look for the next one. One a month for ten months...might get folks in the habit of looking for a Liaden book every time they go into the bookstore.

...we can hope.

Re: How does issue rate related to . . . withdrawal rate? Return Rate?

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Are they likely to be coming out via Amazon? Or direct to the UK? Amazon keep books "on the shelves" a lot longer, and so do most UK bookstores from what I've seen (when I first started reading them I found the first 5 all on the shelf at the same time).

[pmrabble.livejournal.com]

I didn't vote because the important news was that they're coming! In ANY order!

I'll need to have Uncle Hugo's put together a full set to give to my sister because she KEEPS BORROWING MINE!

(Feel free to pass that along to TNEL)

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Not to prod TNEL, but if you have the schedule at DenVention, that would be a great venue for promotions . . .

[marniferous.livejournal.com]

Hallelujiah! That is such fabulous news. Yay!

And now the nice local independent bookseller lady knows...

[(Anonymous)]

After she'd seen the Susan Krinard, Anne McCaffrey and Mary Balogh quotes, she said, "If these ever are reissued, I know who I can sell bunches to."

I let her know to start making her talking points list. She started before I left. ;)

Laura