Comments on: Travis McGee coming to Kindle in January 2013

By: Bufo Calvin

Bufo Calvin — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:16:28 +0000

Thanks for writing, Vera!

They are available for me…are you perhaps outside the USA? Not all countries get the same books at the same time.

By: Vera Regina

Vera Regina — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:55:47 +0000

It seems that in the end the Travis Mcgee series has not come out!
It is already 29th January 2013 and, although some months ago I could see such books announced at Amazon, they are no more there…Does anybody have any idea about what happened?

By: Lady Galaxy

Lady Galaxy — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:52:44 +0000

Oh, so, say it isn’t so! There is no way I’d watch a Travis McGee movie with Leonardo Dicaprio. That would be like casting a tea cup poodle to play the part of a pit bull! There were a couple of made for TV movies about Travis, but they never cast Sam Elliot in the part, and he was so totally wrong! In the movie in my head Brian Denehy was the perfect Travis but unfortunately, he’s now too old for the part.

By: Bufo Calvin

Bufo Calvin — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 03:52:36 +0000

Thanks for writing, Lady!

Those are good insights!

I don’t know if you know about Philip José Farmer’s Wold Newton family:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wold_Newton_family

but Travis McGee is part of that…and there might be new books, of course.

There’s also talk of a Travis McGee movie, perhaps in 2015…and Leonard Dicaprio has been mentioned.

As to any economist’s opinion on the Agency Model, I think it would hinge on the evaluation being micro or macro…

By: Bufo Calvin

Bufo Calvin — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 03:48:19 +0000

Thanks for writing, Bailey!

Under the current laws, the first novel, Little House on the Prairie, will be in the public domain in the USA on January 1, 2031…not that long. Negotiations could happen before that, though.

As to your question…

I have bought “bundles”, but my preference is to have the books in individual files. One of the main reasons has to do with highlights…you can’t tell from which book the highlight came when it is in a bundle. Also, a bundle can be a large file to keep on a Kindle.

On the other hand, getting a bunch of books at a reduced price is good, too.

I believe the Harry Potter books let you get them at a reduced price and have individual files…that’s the best of both worlds.

By: Lady Galaxy

Lady Galaxy — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:10:54 +0000

This is great news! I’ve been waiting for Travis McGee to be available on Kindle since forever! I stumbled into the series with the paperback release of “The Dreadful Lemon Sky.” I went to the library and got caught up, then eagerly awaited each new volume. The day I read of John D. MacDonald’s death was a sad one, because I knew that with his death, the Busted Flush had sailed off into the sunset taking Travis and Meyer along with it. I still have my hardback copy of his final book, “The Lonely Silver Rain.” Even though John MacDonald was still alive when that book was released, there was a sense of closure to it, as if he knew it would be Travis’s last grab for another piece of retirement. I’ve been wanting to reread the whole series from start to finish, but my eyes are no longer up to paperback size print, and the library’s hardbacks are in really icky condition.

I think this series would appeal to those who love Agent Gibbs on NCIS. Travis is the lone wolf that Gibbs would have become if Gibbs had stayed “retired” instead of coming back to NCIS. I hope Random House is smart enough to offer the first book in the series for “free” in order to capture the audience who may not have discovered this series, and then offer the remaining books for a more reasonable price for books that have been around for a long time. But this is one of those cases where I’d be willing to pay more than the gold standard $9.99. Oops, maybe I shouldn’t have let Random House know what a sucker I am. (And I’m wondering what Meyer, the economist, would have to say about the whole agency model.)

By: Bailey

Bailey — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:39:41 +0000

Personally, I wish that the ‘Little House’ series would be released onto the kindle. And the early books of Brian Jacques’ ‘Redwall’ series (although they are /starting/ to inch backwards, it could take awhile) And Patricia C Wrede’s Enchanted Forest Chronicles…

But aside from those series and a couple stand-alone novels, the authors/publishers have been really good about releasing the books I want to read onto kindle. Especially in the last month or so I’ve been getting a lot of alerts about kindle conversions…

Random question alert: do you prefer buying one ebook with all the books in a series, or buying them all individually?