A random comment and a random question…
Comment: sorting my ebooks. (Several thousand of them), I find that (among other things, about a third of my horror collection is anthologies, just under a tenth of my sf collection is anthologies, and even less than that for my fantasy collection. Partly this is because of the medium - my peak fantasy anthology buying years were the ‘89s and ‘90s, before Peanut Press and Fictionwise got me into ebooks. Still, an interesting and unsuspected gap.
Question: genre fiction publishing goes through waves of omnibus enthusiasm, collecting three or more volumes in a series under one set of covers. Do you like those more, less, or differently than single volumes? If it’s situational, can you point at particular considerations that make it more or less likely you’ll go omnibusing?
(In print, books being too thick for their own good is of course a practical limitation. An ebook being too large to open is a much rarer problem these days.)
Comment: sorting my ebooks. (Several thousand of them), I find that (among other things, about a third of my horror collection is anthologies, just under a tenth of my sf collection is anthologies, and even less than that for my fantasy collection. Partly this is because of the medium - my peak fantasy anthology buying years were the ‘89s and ‘90s, before Peanut Press and Fictionwise got me into ebooks. Still, an interesting and unsuspected gap.
Question: genre fiction publishing goes through waves of omnibus enthusiasm, collecting three or more volumes in a series under one set of covers. Do you like those more, less, or differently than single volumes? If it’s situational, can you point at particular considerations that make it more or less likely you’ll go omnibusing?
(In print, books being too thick for their own good is of course a practical limitation. An ebook being too large to open is a much rarer problem these days.)
