Tag: hardback

Follow-up on “Question for Readers”

On By Luther M. SilerIn Reading2 Comments

The following is a non-exhaustive and in no particular order list of authors whose new books are always purchased immediately and in hardcover.  I’m going to forget some.

  • John Scalzi
  • Warren Ellis
  • Salman Rushdie
  • China Mieville
  • Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant (note: her books are not always reliably released in HC)
  • Django Wexler
  • Scott Lynch (with his next book)
  • John Irving
  • Helene Wecker
  • Brandon Sanderson
  • GRRM (but I do it out of spite)
  • Stephen King
  • Kevin Hearne
  • Patrick Rothfuss

The following are authors whose books, so far, I’m always buying, but buy in paperback:

  • Alastair Reynolds
  • Charlie Stross
  • Tana French

As soon as these folk start seeing hardback releases, they’re upgraded on the spot:

  • N.K. Jemisin
  • Saladin Ahmed
  • Michael J. Sullivan
  • Cherie Priest

 

A question for the readers

On By Luther M. SilerIn Reading13 Comments

2890090So what’s it take for you to buy hardcover books from an author?  I ask because Scott Lynch’s third Gentleman Bastards book, The Republic of Thieves, just finally finally finally came out in paperback, and the jerk’s announced that volume 4 is going to be somehow coming out later in 2014.

I do not think I’m going to be able to wait for the fourth book to hit paperback, and splitting the series after a trilogy appeals to the obsessive-compulsive book nerd in me, so I  will be promoting Mr. Lynch to “buy in hardcover,” at least for the Gentleman Bastards books, as soon as #4 comes out.  Kevin Hearne’s Iron Druid books also just made the leap– Shattered was the first book released in hardcover, and I bought it immediately.

Do you have a rule for when you’ll buy a fiction author in paperback vs. hardback?  How patient are you about waiting for paperbacks from authors you like?