[Dragaera] Two complaints (was:title clarification)

[Steve Hubbell]

>From: "David Dyer-Bennet" <dd-b at dd-b.net>
>To: dragaera at dragaera.info
>Subject: Re: [Dragaera] Two complaints (was:title clarification)
>Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:23:16 -0700
>
>On 8/22/06, Steve Hubbell <usagigoya at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Now for a question, which may or may not have been brought up before:
> > Has Steven Brust ever considered authorizing a series of ltd edition s/n
> > deluxe hardcover editions (non-omnibus) of the Vlad Taltos books? 
>Something
> > possibly along the lines of those leather bound Louis L'Amour or Agatha
> > Christe books which you see advertised through mail order ads. How many
> > Brust fans on the list here would actually be willing to pay $50 or $100 
>per
> > book for a such a set?
>
>Wouldn't you want to wait until they're all available?  Otherwise the
>chance of an incomplete set gets pretty high.

You figure twenty-two years for the first ten books in the series (with the 
initial six books released in the first ten years and the following four 
books over another twelve years), it could easily be another twenty-five or 
thirty-five years beore the final book in the series is published, IF all 
the conditions required for Steve to keep writing the series continue to be 
met.

>And...$100 x 19 = $1900, if I can trust my calculator here.

All the more reason to start the series of delux editions without waiting 
'til the series is completed. With one book released approximately every 
year, the delux edition series would eventually catch up and run concurrent 
with the release of the new books in the series. Not to mention, it is 
easier to rationalize spending $50 or $100 once a year for a book, compared 
to on a monthly or bi-monthly type of schedule.

>
>Perhaps the Paarfi books would be more appropriate treatment for
>"retro" fancy editions -- and there are fewer of them :-).

Possibly, but [1] they are already available in hardcover, and [2] the Vlad 
Taltos series just seems to be perfect for this kind of treatment, maybe 
because I just prefer them over the other books. I just love the idea of a 
nice set of leather bound books with the name and symbol or crest of each 
book / house tooled into an embossed cover. Then again, I've never actualy 
owned a leather-bound book before....

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