From thebookseller.com: J R R Tolkien will move into the digital age as HarperCollins begins selling his Lord of the Rings series as enhanced e-books.
As The Bookseller went to press, the publisher said it was planning to issue Tolkien’s entire back catalogue as e-books, beginning with the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit and The Children of Húrin from today [20th April]. The e-books will include the maps and runes contained in the traditional print books and will be on sale at waterstones.com, harpercollinsebooks.co.uk and tolkien.co.uk. Waterstone’s will have a dedicated author page featuring the e-books from today.
David Roth-Ey, director of digital business development, said that the launch was the “most significant e-book initiative” the publisher has done so far. He said: “This is something that the fans so clearly wanted. Releasing Tolkien in e-books is something that has long been a goal of ours and we wanted to create high-quality legal versions of these books. It was a long -process—with the maps and runes, it’s slightly more complicated than [digitising] your average thriller.” HC turns Middle Earth digital
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Claire writes: Amazon UK are offering the standard edition of ‘Sigurd and Gudrun’ at half price for pre-order – that’s £9.49 instead of £18.99 (though there’s postage in addition, of course, unless you qualify for one of their free postage deals). The special edition is also being offered at a considerable discount, £34.99 instead of £60.00.
Pre-Order ‘Sigurd and Gudrun’ at Amazon.co.uk
Pre-Order the Hardocer Special Edition of ‘Sigurd and Gudrun’ at Amazon.co.uk
Be sure to join the official ‘Sigurd and Gudrun’ Facebook page here!
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The folks at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt have allowed us to make the official Facebook page for ‘The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún’! Click on over to get updates and eventually see videos, pictures and other goodies leading up to the books release on May 5th! Sigurd and Gudrún on Facebook
Pre-order ‘The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún’ on Amazon.com
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Doug Adams had asked Fran Walsh to write a short foreword for his new book, “The Music of the LOTR Films”.
Anything that she thought was appropriate: musings on Tolkien and music, memories of working with Howard on the films… anything, really. I trusted her implicitly.
This morning, that foreword arrived with this message,
Hi Doug, Pete and I think your book reads really well and found it to be completely engaging! Congratulations!
A book release party is scheduled in conjunction with the October Radio City Music Hall, FOTR Live concert.
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Claire writes: I subscribe to HarperCollins’ Tolkien newsletter, and have been sent notice of a collector’s edition of ‘The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun’ by J.R.R. Tolkien, signed by Christopher Tolkien. tolkien.co.uk
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Fellow geek Darby Conley once again mentions LOTR in the March 19th edition of ‘Get Fuzzy’. Click on the above link to read.
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