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Has there been a release date announced for HFQ?

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Re: Has there been a release date announced for HFQ?
Post by Keith_w   » Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:07 am

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fallsfromtrees wrote: quote="n7axw" quote="SHV""it's release date is September 8th, 2015.."
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If true that's an improvement over mid-Nov 2015.

Steve /quote


Whoa, whoa, here guys... let's stop, take a breath and clarify...

I could be wrong here, but as I understand what what said above is that the Wargod book will be September 15. RFC stated that HFQ is to be released Nov. 1, so I'm not sure where the Nov. 15 date is coming from.

So... does someone else have a better way of sorting this out?

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I have just been to the Amazon web site. The release date for Sword of the South is given as 4 August, 2015
The release date for Hells Foundations Quiver is given as 8 September 2015.

Now it is possible that Amazon has got it wrong, but that's what the web site says


Amazon.CA says the same thing. Also checked B&N and Chapters-Indigo, and it's not listed there at all.
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Re: Has there been a release date announced for HFQ?
Post by DianeSilva   » Tue Dec 16, 2014 4:08 pm

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SHV wrote:"it's release date is September 8th, 2015.."
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If true that's an improvement over mid-Nov 2015.

Steve

I preordered HFQ. . Am excited. Going to be a great read
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Re: Has there been a release date announced for HFQ?
Post by Randomiser   » Tue Dec 16, 2014 6:27 pm

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Amazon UK hasn't heard of it. But it is selling a book by one
W T Keeton published in July this year called 'Hell's Foundations Quiver' which appears to be a C22nd dystopia novel. Can any of the libarians (or, ahem, you should excuse my language, lawyers) hereabouts tell us how that works? Can you legally have 2 sci-fi books with certain similarities of theme by different people using the same title?
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Re: Has there been a release date announced for HFQ?
Post by SHV   » Tue Dec 16, 2014 6:36 pm

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Here is US Amazon for HFQ:

"Hell's Foundations Quiver (Safehold) Hardcover – September 8, 2015"

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Re: Has there been a release date announced for HFQ?
Post by DrakBibliophile   » Tue Dec 16, 2014 7:17 pm

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I'm not a librarian or a lawyer but to the best of my knowledge there's no law (in any country) against two (or more) books with the same title.

I just search Amazon.com for the title "This Rough Magic" and easily got three different books.

One is by Mary Stewart (which I knew about).

One is by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint and Dave Freer which I also knew about.

The third is a Kindle book by an author that I hadn't heard about.



Randomiser wrote:Amazon UK hasn't heard of it. But it is selling a book by one
W T Keeton published in July this year called 'Hell's Foundations Quiver' which appears to be a C22nd dystopia novel. Can any of the libarians (or, ahem, you should excuse my language, lawyers) hereabouts tell us how that works? Can you legally have 2 sci-fi books with certain similarities of theme by different people using the same title?
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Re: Has there been a release date announced for HFQ?
Post by saber964   » Tue Dec 16, 2014 7:28 pm

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DrakBibliophile wrote:I'm not a librarian or a lawyer but to the best of my knowledge there's no law (in any country) against two (or more) books with the same title.

I just search Amazon.com for the title "This Rough Magic" and easily got three different books.

One is by Mary Stewart (which I knew about).

One is by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint and Dave Freer which I also knew about.

The third is a Kindle book by an author that I hadn't heard about.



Randomiser wrote:Amazon UK hasn't heard of it. But it is selling a book by one
W T Keeton published in July this year called 'Hell's Foundations Quiver' which appears to be a C22nd dystopia novel. Can any of the libarians (or, ahem, you should excuse my language, lawyers) hereabouts tell us how that works? Can you legally have 2 sci-fi books with certain similarities of theme by different people using the same title?



In the US you cannot copy-write book titles only the content of the books.
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Re: Has there been a release date announced for HFQ?
Post by SWM   » Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:13 pm

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Randomiser wrote:Amazon UK hasn't heard of it. But it is selling a book by one
W T Keeton published in July this year called 'Hell's Foundations Quiver' which appears to be a C22nd dystopia novel. Can any of the libarians (or, ahem, you should excuse my language, lawyers) hereabouts tell us how that works? Can you legally have 2 sci-fi books with certain similarities of theme by different people using the same title?
[librarian hat on]Nothing illegal about it. Look up how many books have the title "First Contact"[/librarian hat off]
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Re: Has there been a release date announced for HFQ?
Post by TN4994   » Tue Dec 16, 2014 10:38 pm

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SWM wrote:
Randomiser wrote:Amazon UK hasn't heard of it. But it is selling a book by one
W T Keeton published in July this year called 'Hell's Foundations Quiver' which appears to be a C22nd dystopia novel. Can any of the libarians (or, ahem, you should excuse my language, lawyers) hereabouts tell us how that works? Can you legally have 2 sci-fi books with certain similarities of theme by different people using the same title?
[librarian hat on] Nothing illegal about it. Look up how many books have the title "First Contact"[/librarian hat off]

Oh yeah. I was waiting for Jim Butcher's Skin Game of the Dresden Files, and got notified when four other books were available. Topics: Prostitution, Slave Trade, those who cut themselves intentionally, and Plastic Surgery.
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Re: Has there been a release date announced for HFQ?
Post by Charybdis   » Wed Dec 17, 2014 2:21 pm

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SWM wrote:
Randomiser wrote:Amazon UK hasn't heard of it. But it is selling a book by one
W T Keeton published in July this year called 'Hell's Foundations Quiver' which appears to be a C22nd dystopia novel. Can any of the libarians (or, ahem, you should excuse my language, lawyers) hereabouts tell us how that works? Can you legally have 2 sci-fi books with certain similarities of theme by different people using the same title?
[librarian hat on]Nothing illegal about it. Look up how many books have the title "First Contact"[/librarian hat off]

Oddly enough, in US Thoroughbred horse racing, all name are required to be unique. Of course, a second Secretariat coming in dead last might tend to irritate the betting public. So if I bet on a horse by name, I know what I am getting BUT if I buy a book by name, I had better know what I am buying. Thus the ISBN number and referencing book name AND author!
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Re: Has there been a release date announced for HFQ?
Post by cralkhi   » Thu Dec 18, 2014 3:09 am

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I wouldn't trust the Amazon date too much... they have a tendency to put up placeholders.
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