I've recently fallen in love with my Kindle. I never thought I'd jump on the ebook bandwagon, but in the last year or so it has seemed more and more inevitable. And I'm astonished by how pleasant the reading experience is on my Kindle. I still miss the idea of having all my physical books around me -- though even this seems less important now that I am approaching yet another move to a new city.
Every so often I cruise Amazon's Kindle Store to see if they've released Mary Stewart's books in ebook format. There's still nothing in the U.S. store, but the U.K. seems to have the full line of her romantic suspense books! Hopefully this means that the U.S. editions are on their way.
I couldn't find any of the Arthurian series on the U.K. Amazon. Surely they are working on those?
Anyone have any info about Mary Stewart ebooks in other formats besides Kindle?
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I hope her books come to Kindle here soon as well. My eyesight isn't what it used to be and I find reading paperbacks very difficult. I go to her books on Amazon every so often and just hit the "Tell the publisher I would like to read this on Kindle" url. Thanks for your site. Love the photos of sights from books. Beautiful.
I love my Kindle and would happily read everything that way these days.
I managed to get three of them locally here in New Zealand as ebooks and a couple more from the UK. Due to geographical restrictions what I can and can't buy where tends to be highly variable. I hope to be able to pick up the rest slowly and I'm using this as an excuse to read/reread.
I'm not aware of any current plans to digitize the Merlin books, but I really wish they would. I'd like to reread them too and these days the print in my old paperbacks is a bit hard on the eyes.
I love my Kindle too. Since I have it I read all the time, everywhere. I download at least one book per day especially from all you can books.
Thank you for the post. Great blog!
Just discovered your blog while refreshing my memories of Mary Stewart after coming across this review of The Ivy Tree.
http://shelflove.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/the-ivy-tree-review/#comment-13785
I just bought a bunch of them from the UK and plan to read them all. Great blog, btw. -- Keishon
I sincerely hope that Nook adopts Mary Stewart e books soon. I also have trouble reading paperback books these days and really like the option of changing font size. I saw the Amazon UK website, and am hoping that the ebook versions come across the pond soon!
Does anyone know if the ebook version of the Merlin books available on www.smashwords.com is legitimate? These are the only versions that I can find of Mary's Merlin series.
I love my Kobo reader! Kobo has quite a selection of Mary Stewart ebooks available (ePub format). I haven't purchased any yet but plan to soon!
In reply to anonymous asking about Smashwords. I have no idea. I was not aware there was a legitimate version of the Aruthurian books available - and I keep checking for one.
My gut reaction is that it's not because it seems to have appeared so quietly - and on Smashwords? I would have assumed a big publisher had the rights? I hope it is. I would love to have a legit ebook version, but right now I don't know.
I just did a websearch for KGStudios and can't find anything at all. For all that they claim to be the publisher of the book (if you look at the Smashwords sample), they don't even show up on the publishers list of Smashwords. I have to say that it all looks very suspicious to me and I won't be giving them any money. I'd still love to be proved wrong, but at this point I'm sceptical.
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