A Memory of Light
by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson · first published 2013
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Since 1990, when Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time® burst on the world with its first book, The Eye of the World, readers have been anticipating the final scenes of this extraordinary saga, which has sold over forty million copies in over thirty languages. When Robert Jordan died in 2007, all feared that these concluding scenes would never be written. But working from notes and partials left by Jordan, established fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson stepped in to complete the masterwork. With The Gathering Storm (Book 12) and Towers of Midnight (Book 13) behind him, both of which were # 1 New
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…that is legal distribution (and the awful royalty bargains the author mentions). I've desisted of buying some ebooks on Amazon due to unreasonable prices and/or delayed release dates. Case in point, A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan, I went credit card in hand to Amazon's site to buy it... but they're not selling it, only the paper version. I'd also pay for a Netflix ebook equivalent, probably more than I do for…
on “The Slow Death of the American Author” ↗…harder problem. Most of our contracts with authors grant us rights only in certain territories; we can't just unilaterally rewrite existing agreements." I'm really interested to see what they do with a Memory of Light (the final wheel of time book). Brandon Sanderson has been pushing for things like getting a free ebook when you purchase the hardcover, but when I saw him in melb a few weeks ago he was saying those…
on “More on DRM and ebooks” ↗Of the 3 books Sanderson is credited as having written, he wrote more of the first two than the final volume. A Memory of Light had significant scenes written by RJ himself. Sanderson had to contribute heavily to the first 2 he wrote to get story lines wrapped up to RJ's specs, and to get everything to converge to match RJ's existing…
on “Entitlement issues (2009)” ↗