On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 Qui-Gon Reborn wrote, "Hey, you deleted your "inexcusably rude e-mail" blogs! So you changed your mind?"


I was out of town last week, thus the long delay in answering your question but, no, I did not change my mind. I deleted my two previous blog entries regarding the spoiler email from Del Rey Books because I was appalled by the insensitivity of many of the comments.

It's a hobby, not a religion. It's suppose to be fun. When it stops being fun then it's time to get a new hobby.

There are a lot of other publishers out there who would love to have a chance at having my business. I plan to give it to them.

Regarding the Karen Traviss comments, I have read six Star Wars books and at least five Star Wars short stories by Karen Traviss and I enjoyed every one of them very much. I haven't read any of her non-Star Wars works. I see she wrote a book called City of Pearl and another book called Crossing the Line that were published in 2004 by a company called Eos. Maybe I will add one or both of these books to my shopping list.

For the immediate future, I consider the Del Rey Books issue closed. I'm looking forward to the live-action TV series next year. After the TV series has concluded, I will reconsider the issue of Del Rey Books.

I went 16 years without Star Wars between 1983 and 1999. I can go a while longer.

I had been looking forward to reading Invincible for months. The only reason I hadn't read the book prior to October 22nd was because it has only been released in hardcover (May 13, 2008). It has not yet been released in paperback (December 30, 2008). If five months is such a long time for a book to age, why hasn't it been released in paperback already?

It is my preference to read paperbacks over hardcovers. They fit better in my hands. I don't care to be treated like a second class citizen because of this personal preference. I refuse to be blackmailed into buying higher priced products I do not want.

From what I have read, the plan for the future is to release more Star Wars books in hardcover and I'm tired of playing the Hide From The Spoilers Game while waiting for the paperbacks of books first released in hardcover. The rest of the world can keep playing this game without me. I quit.

I've been reading the free material on wikisource.org on my BlackBerry.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Science_fiction

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Fantasy

Also I have been giving serious thought to getting an Amazon Kindle. The days of paper books are numbered. By the time I revisit the Del Rey Books issue, the game of hardcover vs. paperback may be moot.