Robin Hobb - An E-Book Bundle for Soldier Son!

! If I didn't have them all in hardback I would jump on this faster than you could say "Amzil." I love when short stories are released for e-readers because I can get new-to-me stories without having to purchase anthologies, it's like the iTunes of the reading world.

Any chance of getting the other trilogies in the same type of bundles?

Thanks for the heads up! I have been wanting to re-read those!

Dear Robin


My name is Annelien and I am a project manager for the Entrepreneurial Centres West-Flanders (www.ocwest.be), which is a non-profit organization from Belgium that sets up projects for different governments (Flanders,Europe, West-Flanders, …). We set up projects that help entrepreneurs, especially the small fish in the big big ocean, find their way.

Recently, we set up a project for bookshop-owners. Not the big ones, but the small independent ones, owned by families or single people. 10 bookshopkeepers from West-Flanders decided to enroll and we came up with a very good idea to promote small bookstores. We’re going to be organizing an event on 27th of October 2012, inspired by World Book Night. (http://www.worldbooknight.org/) I don’t know if you are familiar with the project, but essentially we want to give a few enthusiastic readers 25 free books that they can hand out to family, friends and strangers. Of course, we don’t have a lot of money (it’s a governmental project after all) so we can’t buy the rights to the 25 books we want to hand out. Alongside this, we want to organize a contest, a fun-filled day in all the bookshops and more.

I was wondering, if I asked you personally, would you give us the right to your books for just this event? We would print a limited amount of them, of course. If I can approach your publisher in Belgium with an email from you personally, giving us consent, it’ll be a lot easier for us to print the Dutch translations for free. It’s a completely free project to support small bookshops, so you’d be doing us a huge favour. (Plus, your book would be given to a lot of people who may want to read more of your work… and might buy it in those indie bookstores!)

I await your reply very eagerly (since I am a big fan and a Livejournal follower of yours…)!

Thanks in advance!

I can be contacted via PM on livejournal (ledh) or via annelien.vanessche@ocwest.be

Thank you for the explanation, I don't think any of us realised this. We thought the publisher would need permission from you.

We've already contacted a few publishers. I'll let you know what comes from it, as we would love to have your book on our list!

Thanks for the personal reply (and thanks for the amazing stories!)

Kindest regards