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Dave Duncan has more titles out-of-print than in, so the veteran novelist was hoping Print-on-Demand 'e-Books' ordered from internet sites could rejuvenate his earlier work.
"Print-on-Demand seems to be the victim of its own success,"; he says. "It is so easy and so cheap that every Wannabe Tolkien here on Middle Earth is pumping out fantasy trilogies as PoD books; all the little Rudyards are kipling like mad. Suppliers are overwhelmed by an avalanche of vanity press. The trade press will not recognize PoD books as books, catalogues ignore them, and thus no one can buy them."; He believes the future just hasn't arrived yet and PoDs will ultimately prevail. Meanwhile HarperCollins has re-released Duncan's historical novel Daughter of Troy and Red Deer Press is re-releasing his 1990 Aurora fantasy award winner West of January. His latest novel is called Paragon Lost: A Chronicle of the King's Blades (HarperCollins $24.95). 0380978962 (2003)
[Spring 2003 BCBW]
"Print-on-Demand seems to be the victim of its own success,"; he says. "It is so easy and so cheap that every Wannabe Tolkien here on Middle Earth is pumping out fantasy trilogies as PoD books; all the little Rudyards are kipling like mad. Suppliers are overwhelmed by an avalanche of vanity press. The trade press will not recognize PoD books as books, catalogues ignore them, and thus no one can buy them."; He believes the future just hasn't arrived yet and PoDs will ultimately prevail. Meanwhile HarperCollins has re-released Duncan's historical novel Daughter of Troy and Red Deer Press is re-releasing his 1990 Aurora fantasy award winner West of January. His latest novel is called Paragon Lost: A Chronicle of the King's Blades (HarperCollins $24.95). 0380978962 (2003)
[Spring 2003 BCBW]
Submitted on June 2, 2003 in By David.
