16) Wilde Stories 2011 - Steve Berman (editor) (epub)
Where? Wizards Tower Bookstore
Why?
These days lots of people ask me why I don't have an ereader. Or rather, they ask me why I don't have a kindle. I do of course have an ereader, my laptop, which I spend more waking hours hunched over than I care to admit and I don't experience any problems reading long form prose on it.
I have several problems with Amazon kindle that range from the perfectly reasonable, DRM restrictions and monopolistic practices, to the fairly irrational, I an enraged by the fact that as an Irish customer I do my dead tree shopping at the .co.uk site, but have to go to .com to but ebooks.
Generally if I'm buying an ebook from a small publisher I prefer to but from them directly. It seems like a sensible way for them to operate and so I want to support them. Also it's usually cheaper. Unfortunately Lethe Press have an horrifically badly designed website and once I found the book they only offered it as pdf, which is a pretty bad format for ebooks. Nil desperandum, a lovely epub version was available at Wizards Tower for slightly more than Lethe was offering it, but mless that I would have paid to get it as a yucky azw file from Amazon.
I'd been meaning to get this for a while on the back of Brit Mandelo's glowing review on Tor and the inclusion on a Hal Duncan story.
Total Spend €220.34
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