Sue, do you know if there are any plans to release Dooku's Secret Army and Crisis on Coruscant in the U.S.? Similarly, there was an earlier announcement that The Way of the Warrior was going to be released in the U.S., but that hasn't happened so far. Are there still plans for a U.S. release?

Sorry, I don't know. I don't work with this publisher.

Sue-
Is there any chance of getting that short story to tie up Republic/Imperial Commando at all?
Thanks.

Probably not --

Sue,
I remember a while back seeing two e-book LOTF bundles on amazon, oddly enough they were labeled as sw:lotf volumes one and two making them next to impossible to find on the site. I recently got a kindle and was hoping to pick these up (the prices were great) and they seem to have been removed. The bundles are still on other e-book stores (such as kobo) but that is of course not helpful. I was wondering if you knew why they were removed, were they just limited deals or was something wrong with them.

Sue, do you know if there are any plans to release Dooku's Secret Army and Crisis on Coruscant in the U.S.? Similarly, there was an earlier announcement that The Way of the Warrior was going to be released in the U.S., but that hasn't happened so far. Are there still plans for a U.S. release?

Sue-
Is there any chance of getting that short story to tie up Republic/Imperial Commando at all?
Thanks.

Zee Zee, that's just the beginning of the all the free stuff we should be grateful for. There are also all the free games on the official site and starwars.lego.com, the TOR timeline entries, the online Lego comics, the stories in Lego Club Magazine (subscriptions are free), the script for "A Prelude to Point Rain," the Death Troopers letters, the Death Troopers tweets, the stories/in-universe documents at the official Galaxies site, the audio Holonet News entries, the Escape from Kamino facebook game, and the Clone Wars Adventures game. This is a great time to be a poor Star Wars fan.

Edit: Oops, forgot to include the cinematic trailers for TOR and TFUII.

Yeah, we were whining in the U.S. for a while about being unable to have the TCW novels in a format (small PB or large HB) that would match all of our other SW novels. Can't please anyone!

Just to wade in on the whole paperback/hardcover debate a moment.....spare a thought for us fans in the UK.

We get the books released roughly a month after the US/Canada. Why?? I dont know. But of the recent releases I think a higher majority of them have been hardcover. Excepting Crosscurrent and Death Troopers and 501st its been all hardcovers. Including the Clone Wars series. They were all released in hardcover over here.

Wasnt that series only released in paperback in the US/Canada??

1. a hardcover novel does, in fact, have a higher profit margin than a paperback novel when accounting for overall sales numbers, profit per unit sold, marginal revenue, etc.?
2. a higher price tag, hardcover format, or even higher profit margin (whichever might truly apply) actually results in a higher quality product?
3. hardcover prices are necessary to sustain the publishing line?

One could easily argue that, as so many people have been complaining over the last two years, the quality level of FOTJ has not matched numerous previous outings, which seems to undermine the idea that hardcover prices or the hardcover format somehow enhances quality as opposed to the quality level generated by paperbacks, many of which have been far more well-received than FOTJ's hardcovers.

One could also argue that if hardcovers and their prices bring about higher quality work, are necessary to sustain the line, or have a significantly higher profit margin (all else being equal), that the logical outcome would be a line that is entirely hardcover, as any business would be foolish to choose a lower profit option over a higher profit one, as it would undermine their business model and the best interests of their employees and shareholders.

One could also point to other publishing lines that were sustained for the life of their franchises in paperback-only format: Babylon 5 and Quantum Leap both immediately spring to mind as media tie-in novel series that lasted quite a while, alongside their parent ranchises, and yet never once released a hardback novel.

I'm not trying to attack your point, just making conversation. On economic concepts, I tend to always jump into the devil's advocate role, since it's what I teach.

Personally, I do enjoy seeing hardback novels for my collection now that I'm in a position to afford them as an adult (rather than a cash-starved teen as I was during the early days of the line), and I enjoy high-quality SW tales. I'm just not sure that those two are inextricably linked.

Wow, that shows how long I've been out of the loop. Sorry for not taking care of it, but I really didn't want to read any spoilers... I'm only 50 pages into Vortex!