Series Finale: The Silver Mage by Katharine Kerr

Here is the debut of the new feature I mentioned last week, where I post a short feature/reminder on the publishing of concluding books in a series. Today, the 15th and final book in the Deverry series,The Silver Mage, hits stores. There is a temporary (I assume) LiveJournal site to celebrate the series conclusion here. The author's home page, including lots of info on the Deverry series, is here. I own 13 of the first 15 in mass market paperback, and hope to read them someday. However, I'm disappointed that only the last 4 in the series are available in ebook form. It seems like as part of the marketing for this series, they could have made an attempt to publish digital versions of all of the books...kinda how Tor is doing with the Wheel of Time. Though in this case I don't see a reason they should be published one per month. With ebooks gaining more visibility, I would have thought it made sense for them (Daw) to publish the entire series in ebook form, and add that to the marketing push. Maybe Daw doesn't own all of the series, in which case I would understand. But if they do have rights to all 15, seems like a missed opportunity. Plus, as part of the marketing push, I would have made the ebook for the first book, Daggerspell, free. Sorta like a "To celebrate the publishing of the final Deverry novel, we would like to announce that the entire series is now available in ebook format. And new readers can start the series by downloading Daggerspell for free."

At least that is my opinion. But hey, what do I know?


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