Howdy, Diesel eBooks Spectators.
Good news! After nearly five months of constant wheelin’ and dealin’, not to mention threats to throw a few kidney punches (we kid you not!), we just signed with our third Agency Five Publisher, Hachette. All their titles are now back in their full glory on the Diesel eBooks Store. So expect to see many of your favorite bestselling authors back on track including Michael Connelly, David Baldacci, Nicholas Sparks, David Sedaris, Anita Shreve, Walter Mosley, Scott Turow and of course, the epitome of a starving artist, the grand poobah himself — James Patterson. (James Joyce, you better watch it.)
To recap: HarperCollins, Penguin and Hachette titles are now fully restored on Diesel. We are still working to get Simon & Schuster and Macmillan back on the site.
We also wanted to point out that many of our fellow Indie eBook competitors only *just* reinstated their Hachette titles as well. Yet another reason why Agency has impacted the Indies in a negative way.
Stay tuned for more madness and mayhem in regards to the Agency Five Saga.
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Is there any way you can indicate whether books are available outside the US too?
It is very frustrating to find the (paper) books available in our bookstores but not the e version.
Hello Leonie,
Absolutely. On many of the product pages for our eBooks, there should be a listing of country code restrictions. If you don’t see any, it usually means that the book is available worldwide. Don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any further questions.
Good news for some, but not for Australians sadly.
Try as I might I can’t find any Hachette ebooks that I want to buy that aren’t Territorially Restricted. Par for the course now, so I suppose I have to grin & bear it, consoling myself with the thought that at least my money is in my bank account, and not in the coffers of the rapacious A5 publishers.
Linda,
A bit of good news for Australians. HarperCollins recently announced that it is merging its science fiction imprint Eos with Voyager UK/Australia/New Zealand and will become Harper Voyager, “the first global imprint for HarperCollins Publisher world-wide” according to Eos’s Executive Editor Diana Gill. Hopefully this is the beginning of a trend.
Here’s to a better day with no territorial restrictions on e-books!
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