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Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: Re: True Names
Article-I.D.: allegra.661
Posted: Fri Dec  3 22:26:21 1982
Received: Sat Dec  4 06:49:09 1982

Jim Frenkel (the former editor of the Binary Star series at Dell) said
at a panel at Apricon V (a NYC one-day con held last month) that the
security leak which allowed you to get copies of Binary Star
#5 by mail-order from Dell has indeed been stopped, and that \\Dell
will reprint 'True Names' in trade paperback form in mid-1983//.  This
would seem to confirm the rumor that Dell hoarded the remaining copies
to hang onto the pub rights.  The book will probably contain True
Names all by itself, in a horribly overpriced edition with large type,
lots of blank pages, and so on, like Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

~= I think this action is despicable.  Ace issuing SF in trade paper
before regular paper was bad enough; Dell has gone one better in the
eternal struggle for greed.  Hardcovers, at least, have aesthetic
merits and carry some promise of withstanding the test of time, etc.
Trade paperbacks are nothing but an excuse for higher retail prices.
(Exception: publishers like Starblaze can justify it, because they're
only able to sell a limited number of copies and need to make back their
investment).

Everyone should write letters to Dell deploring what they've done,
and demanding a rack paperback reprint of Binary Star #5 (Nightflyers
is a good story too). =~

PS. Has anyone asked Vernor Vinge what's going on?  Does he show up
at West Coast cons (I'm in New Jersey)?

PPS. Jim Frenkel, who's a very nice person, is now running his own
publishing house called Bluejaybooks.  I wish him well.

P3S. I've been told that the WSFS constitution was amended at Chicon
IV to allow works which received inadequate distribution in the year
they were published to be eligible for Hugo nomination a second time.
Can anyone confirm or comment on this?  ~= Might True Names yet win the
Hugo award that it richly deserves? =~

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--Paul