PeterAhlstrom

You're assuming Shinovar has seasons.

I didn't put the Hoid prologue in. Maybe sometime later. It's not really ready, and I want Brandon's commentary.

Urgh, of course, I was thinking of War of the Worlds, since you mentioned Orson Welles. The article I read said she used her own Norwegian address for her account. It said she only used her friend's address for the RMA. But whatever...

1984 is by H. G. Wells. Orson Welles did a famous radio play of it. I think it was a BoingBoing article I read that spelled it out more clearly. It's not illegal to have and use a Kindle in Norway, and that includes buying books.

I asked Tor about this and they said they printed 2000 copies for the open market. That means outside the US and Canada and UK/Australia/NZ. No telling how it ended up in a used bookstore.

What article says it wasn't licensed? Norway is part of what the publishing industry calls the "open market." In Norway, you can legally buy ebooks intended for the UK AND the US. She used her Norway billing address for her purchases. When the Kindle needed warranty repair they wouldn't send it to Norway but accepted her use of a friend's UK address for the replacement. Anyway Amazon has reinstated her account.

They're not actually very high-res. It's meant as a gallery for looking at on your computer screen, and won't be good enough for printing out. Its major point was to give an alternative to Kindle users who had to deal with bad images.

All Tor books (from any vendor) are now DRM-free, so you can make backups easily. Brandon's self-released novellas are also DRM-free. Unfortunately, it is likely that any books Brandon puts out from other publishers will have DRM, because most other publishers don't understand that DRM only hurts the consumer.

You read it in the store?

Well I didn't know about it. But it would explain why we had to do the proofs so long ago...

Lyrebon, that is the UK trade paperback and UK mass market paperback. I'm asking Tor about this international mass market thing.

Sometimes Brandon doesn't need to make things up, like rocks that burn...

Weird, but yeah, it wasn't supposed to come out until October 30th.

Okay, where are the screenshots of Brandon's titles on that YouTube thing?

This is right. Strict embargoes are only for big publishers, really. With everyone else, the bookstore puts it on the shelf when they receive it. Actually, even with big publishers, it only matters for big books. Alcatraz books typically showed up on shelves as many as 6 weeks early. And with Brandon's Tor books, they didn't get strict until Way of Kings. Buying it early can hurt a book's ranking on bestseller charts, because initial sales are spread out over a few weeks instead of being all in one week. However, we don't know anything about the trade paperback fiction bestseller list, which we have never tried to compete on.

Fluttershy. Those eyes.

Hahahahahaha.

I know much of the plot of book 2 now, and there's something that's crazier than some of these.

A paper knife? (I haven't read the Night Angel trilogy.)

It will be on Kobo. I will talk to Chair about Infinity Blade (Kobo's publishing program wasn't friendly before, but now it is a piece of cake). But you can buy Infinity Blade on B&N/Nook and then put it on a Kobo Reader. There is no DRM.

See if you can guess who everyone else is.

Honestly, I don't know if Brandon has current plans for more "episodes." But he did write it in large part in order to sell television rights, and Lionsgate optioned it. Whether they go through with their option is still up in the air. I think it would make a great TV series. I could easily picture it on the USA network, for instance.

This is no coincidence.

Is it the limited edition? Can you take photos?

Actually, I had totally forgotten what I wrote there, so thanks for translating it.