Not to mention - we're talking hardcover release. People who wait for paperbacks will always be behind and just miss your dates cutoff.
Though this is true even so, depending on how fast the paperback is released.
For example, The Gathering Storm came out in October 2009, the paperback isn't out yet, and won't be until late September.
Wings of Wrath by CS Friedman came out in paperback in February 2010, and in hardcover in February 2009.
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds came out in paperback in late May 2010 (I haven't had a chance to buy it yet, although he's one of my favorite authors), and in hardcover in June 2009 - and this was supposed to be one of his best novels yet.
So you see, for most publishers, it's exactly a year between HC and MMPB release. And if I can't afford hardcovers, then I would have only had a chance to buy the books which were released in the month of August 2009, and had less than a month to do it in - the buying and reading.
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The RAFO Book Awards 2010 - Nominations closed. Voting thread on Monday.
- 09/08/2010 06:45:13 PM
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Links to the Book Club posts for your convenience.
- 10/08/2010 04:51:09 PM
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Question
- 10/08/2010 04:53:06 PM
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Published. *NM*
- 10/08/2010 06:30:22 PM
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That's too restricting. You expect us to have read books published in the last month? Come on
- 20/08/2010 10:19:39 PM
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You've got books from August 2009 till July 2010.
- 20/08/2010 10:43:22 PM
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It's extremely unrealistic to expect anyone other than people who get ARC's to read books released
- 20/08/2010 11:30:25 PM
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Why do you keep talking about a month and months when the period is a year? I'm confused.
- 20/08/2010 11:42:22 PM
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The period is 0.5 months to 1 year, 0.5 months.
- 21/08/2010 01:03:47 AM
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I still don't understand you.
- 21/08/2010 12:57:53 AM
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You need to add categories "Favorite book read in Aug 2009-Jul 2010 release in prior years.) *NM*
- 21/08/2010 01:05:02 AM
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She's just noting that most of the eligible books are hardcovers and thus aren't read by many
- 21/08/2010 01:13:21 AM
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Don't think I've read enough to nominate
- 10/08/2010 08:00:15 PM
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To you and Camilla both: you can limit your nominations to a few categories, you know.
- 10/08/2010 08:29:59 PM
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Since it seems nobody wants to publicize their choices, here's some of mine
- 11/08/2010 07:50:12 PM
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Re: Since it seems nobody wants to publicize their choices, here's some of mine
- 11/08/2010 11:35:30 PM
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I have a list of all the reviews you (and everyone else) posted over the past year...
- 11/08/2010 11:45:14 PM
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Re: I have a list of all the reviews you (and everyone else) posted over the past year...
- 11/08/2010 11:47:15 PM
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But, yes please
- 12/08/2010 07:23:12 PM
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Re: The RAFO Book Awards 2010 - Call for Nominations (1 week to go!)
- 20/08/2010 11:29:10 PM
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