From the AP (via Seattle PI.com)
One of the 20th century’s most popular historical series, Will and Ariel Durant’s “The Story of Civilization,” is [back] in digital form.
Simon & Schuster announced Tuesday that all 11 volumes, long out of print, are now available as ebooks — separately and collectively. The original books sold hundreds of thousands of copies even as critics sometimes questioned the Durants’ scholarship.
See Also: Series Homepage From Simon and Schuster
Amazon and Barnes & Noble are selling each volume of the series for $14.99.
Via INFOdocket
Point of clarification. For the time being at least, seems to be Adobe DRM *only*.
*sigh*
Nope, you can get it on Amazon. I just downloaded the first volume to my Kindle. A couple of the volumes are also available at the Internet Archive.
Thanks for the tip about the Internet archive, because I don’t see a single title in the Kindle store. Oh Canada …
Would have preferred to pay for a copy of Volume 1 and worked my way through, but it looks like free is the way to go …
From what I can see, all 11 volumes are available in the archive in several different formats, including audiobook and CD ISO.
Lesson for Canadian Kindle book buyers: when you see a book(s) for pre-order, order it. Doesn’t matter if it’s pulled later. It’s yours. Made that mistake /w these.
Can be bought from iBookstore too.
I’m waiting to buy Frederick Copleston’s History of Philosophy if it ever comes out in ebook format.
I used to think so as well, until I pre-ordered the next Agent Pendergast book. Then the pre-order option disappeared – and then the next time I checked my Kindle pre-orders, Cold Vengeance had disappeared. So don’t think that you have locked a title down just because you pre-ordered it, doesn’t hold true for everything.
So far so good and I buy alot for my Kindle.
Taking a quick glance thru the ePub versions, they could do with some serious proofreading in spots. It doesn’t look like they were thoroughly spell checked after being OCR’d.
For the record, I saw 5 volumes for sale at my local library for 25 cents each. Used hard copies are still being sold of all these volumes; if you add shipping costs, any volume could be had for under $5. In comparison, ebook prices for individual volumes of ‘
Durant are being sold for $15. I have to wonder: why didn’t the idiots at Simon & Schuster price them at $3?
@Robert Nagle:
The AP6 publishers never price backlist/out of print to compete with used, even though they ought to.