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Title: Where can we buy "What the Storm Means" ebook?
Post by: Xcom78 on September 17, 2009, 03:50:04 AM: The only place I have found that is selling it is amazon and that is for the kindle only. Not everyone owns a kindle. Where can we buy a copy so we can read it on our PC/Macs?
Title: Re: Where can we buy "What the Storm Means" ebook?
Post by: Peter Ahlstrom on September 17, 2009, 04:41:35 AM: Tor.com is bound to have a list up sometime tomorrow, if not at midnight EST.
Title: Re: Where can we buy "What the Storm Means" ebook?
Post by: TMan on September 17, 2009, 11:44:58 AM: On a related subject; am I the only one who doesn't want to pay for the prologue twice? I mean, I've pre-ordered the book, which supposedly includes the prologue, so I'm not going to pay 3 dollar for a digital version of something I've ordered on paper anyway...

Feels like a rip-off to me.
Title: Re: Where can we buy "What the Storm Means" ebook?
Post by: douglas on September 17, 2009, 12:22:53 PM: It's not like they're forcing you to buy it. All you need to avoid paying for the prologue twice is the patience to wait for October 27th.
Title: Re: Where can we buy "What the Storm Means" ebook?
Post by: Publius on September 17, 2009, 12:43:17 PM: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=Yes&productID=BK_AREN_000994

I don't mind buying the prologue. It's only a couple of bucks. You can probably find enough spare change in your car or your couch to buy this. It's over 1 1/2 hours long.

People go and spend $10 on a 90 minute movie, and then go buy the book or vice versa. It's just new media. Start thinking of it as supporting new authors as opposed to getting ripped off. The more successful Brandon Sanderson is the more likely they are to go looking for the "Next Brandon Sanderson."
Title: Re: Where can we buy "What the Storm Means" ebook?
Post by: TMan on September 17, 2009, 04:09:07 PM: I understand it's only 3 dollars which is not much, but I've pre-ordered the hardcover for a whooping 28 euros (that's 41 dollar!), so I think I'm supporting Brandon quite enough with this.

And indeed, I'm not forced to buy the prologue, and I won't. It's the principle of the thing.
Title: Re: Where can we buy "What the Storm Means" ebook?
Post by: TMan on September 17, 2009, 04:25:26 PM: Ah, now I've bought it anyway because I just couldn't bear the suspense :P
Title: Re: Where can we buy "What the Storm Means" ebook?
Post by: sortitus on September 17, 2009, 07:49:59 PM: That's some steel reserve and self control you've got going there, TMan. ;)
Title: Re: Where can we buy "What the Storm Means" ebook?
Post by: apbadd on September 17, 2009, 09:22:56 PM: I would buy it if I could find a plain old fashioned pdf version anywhere :'(
Title: Re: Where can we buy "What the Storm Means" ebook?
Post by: Andrew the Great on September 18, 2009, 12:17:10 AM: I was gonna wait. And then I saw a link to a discussion page about when it would be available. And I saw that it was. And I went to that page. And it was Barnes and Noble, where I have an account. And I only had to click twice. And then I realized, "Oh yeah, I was gonna wait." And then I read it. And it was really really good.
Title: Re: Where can we buy "What the Storm Means" ebook?
Post by: jjb on September 18, 2009, 01:00:01 AM: apbadd: Get it from Barnes and Nobles. They have a reader downloadable for free.

I wasn't planning on buying the prologue twice, but I couldn't resist. And I must say I am so much more excited for the rest of the book now. Maybe it was because Jordan wrote a lot of the prologue, but I thought the voice was much more Wheel of Time than chapter 1 was.

And the last page of the prologue. I'd been hoping that would happen for so so so so long.
Title: Re: Where can we buy "What the Storm Means" ebook?
Post by: Bugg on September 18, 2009, 01:32:50 AM: it's also available on the ebookstore dot com, url below

http://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/robert-jordan/what-the-storm-means/_/R-400000000000000176397

you have to download their software, but it is free and only takes a couple minutes.
Title: Re: Where can we buy "What the Storm Means" ebook?
Post by: Ari54 on September 18, 2009, 10:57:16 AM: I got mine at powells.com, because apparently B&N think they're too awesome to sell stuff outside the USA.
Title: Re: Where can we buy "What the Storm Means" ebook?
Post by: apbadd on September 18, 2009, 06:12:03 PM: i ended up getting the audio version as i have a long commute. didn't get through it all on the way in to work but have something for the ride home.