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Buying the books in hardcover Different book dimensions

#1 sandurs

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Posted 04 July 2012 - 12:19 AM

Don't know where else to put this. But I was wondering on amazon the books are available in hardcover but they don't seem to have the same book dimensions. Does anyone know if this is just measured wrong by them or are the book in different sizes even if they are published by the same publisher?

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Posted 04 July 2012 - 08:19 AM

It's an evil plot by Amazon to prevent you from having a tidy-looking bookshelf.

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Posted 04 July 2012 - 09:08 AM

I'm not sure. Are all the dimensions different or just the width? Because the books do get progressively larger. Also, make sure you're not confusing the novellas with the actual series.

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Posted 04 July 2012 - 04:27 PM

It's all different, it's the same on the barnes and noble site as well.. how do I see the difference between the novellas and actual series?

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Posted 05 July 2012 - 01:37 AM

Gardens of the Moon, Deadhouse Gates, Memories of Ice, House of Chains, Midnight Tides, The Bonehunters, Reaper's Gale, Toll the Hounds, Dust of Dreams and The Cripple God are the core story.

Titles like The Crimson Guard, Night of Knives and The Lees of Laughter's End are extra novels set in the same world.

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Posted 05 July 2012 - 02:01 AM

There's the Malazan Book of the Fallen, which is the 10 book series by Steven Erikson, and Novels of the Malazan Empire, a companion series by Ian Esslemont, and then the Bauchelain and Korbal Broach stories, which are very short books, hence being termed novellas.

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Posted 05 July 2012 - 02:16 AM

Amazon also sells handsaws, if uniformity is that important to you.

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Posted 05 July 2012 - 04:45 AM

You're probably looking at book club editions. These are just smaller hardcover editions.

My advice? Write a letter to SE's publisher, saying they need to reprint all Malazan books in hardback and trade paperback with the infinitely superior UK covers. In fact, everyone on the board needs to do it, because reading mass market paperback versions of The Bonehunters through The Crippled God is just a subtle form of torture.

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Posted 05 July 2012 - 06:39 PM

Any of you have the series in hardcover from Tor ? and if so are they all the same size?

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Posted 05 July 2012 - 07:28 PM

sandurs, on 05 July 2012 - 06:39 PM, said:

Any of you have the series in hardcover from Tor ? and if so are they all the same size?

Tor hardcovers are all of a single standard size. What you have to be wary about is that the (smaller) SFBC book club editions share ISBNs with the full-size editions.

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