For an eBook??????? 'The Tyrant's Law', book three in Daniel Abraham's 'Dagger and Coin' series just cost me US$18.21, The paperback copy only costs US$10.98!! WHAT THE FUCK!!! Is it just me or is there something seriously wrong with that? How the Fuck can Orbit justify an eBook costing $8 more than the physical copy of the exact same book? Whats more the previous two books only cost me $9.99 each on release. So the price has doubled in a year!

Now its got to be Orbit ripping me off, as Amazon conveniently has "price set by publisher" under the price for the eBook. I'm assuming Amazon set the price they sell the physical copy at and I'll assume they aren't selling it less than what they paid for it, which to me means Orbit is either laughing all the way to the bank with my money or Amazon being the evil corporation they are, are selling the physical copy of the book at a loss just to make Orbit's eBook pricing policy look like a fucking ripoff!!!

So once again WTF!!!!!!!!

Oh and I'm quite willing to pay $18 for the book as it's probably the best fantasy currently being written. I just don't appreciate being ripped off/punished for buying the eBook version! Or did I miss the memo where eBooks now cost more to produce and "ship" than physical books?

And yes I could well be an arse. wah wah!

Better late than never! These figures are from Publishers Weekly based on what the publisher tells them and are for the calendar year. USA only.

Disclaimer: It's a long list and I'm sure I missed some due to ignorance and you may disagree on my take on what fits into SFF. i.e. Not counting Harris this year. 

Hardcover: Coming in at #1 for the 2nd year running is George R R Martin's A Dance With Dragons with 200 000+ in sales. Pretty impressive for a book that was released the previous year. 

In 2nd we have Cold Days by Jim Butcher with 165,000 sold. For comparison Ghost Story sold 190,420.

At #3 we have an old classic, The Hobbit, Deluxe Pocket Edition. J.R.R. Tolkien  (123,821). 

And that's it for Hardcovers above 100 000 in sales. Now onto eBooks which is dominated by GRRM.

1. A Game of Thrones. George R.R. Martin 400 000+
2. A Dance with the Dragons. George R.R. Martin 400 000+
3. A Clash of Kings. George R.R. Martin. 200 000+
4. A Storm of Swords. George R.R. Martin. 200 000+
5. Game of Thrones, 4-Copy. George R.R. Martin. 200 000+(packaged books?)
6. A Feast for Crows. George R.R. Martin. 200 000+
7. The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel. Stephen King. (109,783)
8. Cold Days. Jim Butcher. (82,872)
9. The Lord of the Rings. J.R.R. Tolkien. (53,128)
10. The Name of the Wind. Patrick Rothfuss. (53,097)
11. The Gunslinger. Stephen King. 50 000+
12. The Wise Man's Fear. Patrick Rothfuss. (49,731)
13. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas Adams. 40 000+
14. American Gods. Neil Gaiman. (40,181)
15. Tricked. Kevin Hearne. 30 000+
16. Storm Front. Jim Butcher. 30 000+
17. Ghost Story. Jim Butcher. 20 000+

OMG I'm not dead!!! And apparently The Republic of Thieves  by some long haired hippy dude isn't either! io9 have a new chapter of the book over on there site as well as a link to amazon that says October 8th. Well golly that inspires confidence! No idea if this date has been confirmed by the publishers and Scott as I've been pretty much dead to the online world for a few months now. Anyway thought I'd get back on the horse and post something.

Time passed, days and months chaining together into years, and Jean Tannen joined the Gentlemen Bastards. In the summer of the seventy-seventh Year of Perelandro, two years after Jean’s arrival, a rare dry spell came over the city-state of Camorr, and the Angevine ran ten feet below its usual height. The canals went gray and turgid, thickening like blood in the veins of a ripening corpse.

That is all, Stay tuned for more crap reviews and maybe the odd rant soon;)

Twenty eight florins a month is a huge price to pay, for a man to stand between you and the Wild.

Twenty eight florins a month is nowhere near enough when a wyvern's jaws snap shut on your helmet in the hot stink of battle, and the beast starts to rip the head from your shoulders. But if standing and fighting is hard, leading a company of men - or worse, a company of mercenaries - against the smart, deadly creatures of the Wild is even harder.

The advantages of birth, training, and the luck of the devil to do it.

The Red Knight has all three, he has youth on his side, and he's determined to turn a profit. So when he hires his company out to protect an Abbess and her nunnery it's just another job. The abbey is rich, the nuns are pretty and the monster preying on them is nothing he can't deal with.

Only it's not just a job. It's going to be a war . . .