Question for Star Trek Books Editor

So the Star Trek audiobooks are in the past?
"Eric Cartman" <johnmunch RemoveThis @qwest.net> wrote in message
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> How do you know this?
> "Dr. Personality" <affable RemoveThis @no.com.invalid> wrote in message
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>> In article <1129519551.349327.155020 RemoveThis @f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
>> Joey Jolley <johnmunch RemoveThis @qwest.net> wrote:
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>>> I was asking about Star Trek audiobooks, not ebooks.
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>> Yes, but you mentioned that the novels were available only in Ebook
>> format and hardcover (you forgot paperback, of course), and you said
>> that limiting availability to Ebooks was unfair to people like you who
>> won't use a credit card on the net. One did not seem to have anything
>> to do with the other.
>>
>> As Edward McArdle correctly guessed, the audiobooks were expensive to
>> produce. They had to pay the writer something to massage the book into
>> something a much more highly paid actor could read in a reasonable
>> amount of time. After all that, they didn't sell very well. A shame,
>> but there it is.
>>
>> You shouldn't worry about using your credit card at secured sites, but
>> that's your business.
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In article <jQb7f.24$MK5.1042@news.uswest.net>, Eric Cartman
<johnmunch.TakeThisOut@qwest.net> wrote:

> How do you know this?

It's my business to know this. To answer your question in the other
post, as of now the audiobooks are in the past. Perhaps the market
might improve someday, but I don't know when that might be. I have to
admit that I'm surprised the audiobook program has gone away. I
thought the Trek collectibles market, which is aggressively completist,
would sustain audiobooks. Mainstream audiobooks still do quite well,
some of them astonishingly well. It may be that the Trek market in
general has faded to a shadow of its former self, and the loss of the
audiobook program is a symptom of that.

I'd expect E-books to keep on going because, even though they sell in
very small numbers, they really don't cost anything to produce.
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Joey Jolley wrote:
> Has Simon and Schuster stopped putting out Star Trek audiobooks?
> If so,
> why? I notice that the only format besides hardcover that the novels
> are
> available in is Ebook. If that's the case, then that's unfair to those
> of us
> who choose not to use credit cards to purchase stuff over the Internet.
>

I suspect that the audio book format will soon be download only.
Audible, iTunes, etc. So you'd still be forced to buy over the net if
this is your format of choice.
JOE
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