Comments on: Scyla y Fantasymundo Entrevistas

By: Lucía

Lucía — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:26:49 +0000

brandy: this is on my wish list…
reycat: i recommend this quite much. I gave it to my sister and she devoured it and I recommende it to a colleague that read it in two days.
The book gets into you so much that it leaves you wishing for more. In fact, I had Sanderson’s “The Well of Ascension” pending for a year and I read it and the next part almost at a time due to the yearning of fantasy I had.
And now i am reading a trilogy of a friend of Peter Brett, Brent Weeks. I don’t know if it is in Spanish, is the trilogy of the Shadows. It’s not bad, but from all of these, I stick to The Warded Man.
reycat: looks like the author has linked to us in his blog
Brandy: how nice! Even though we are not talking much about the book.
Although I suppose that the so expensive price and it being so new are the reasons.
Alice: Jeez, I’ll write it down to look for it.
What a look, people. And I didn’t notice before.

The rest of the comments follow more or less this pattern, and then they began discussing price and urban fantasy.

By the way, if you want to register, there is an option to switch language to english and someone or other will translate for you, eheheh.

By: Lucía

Lucía — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:08:11 +0000

The price is fixed by the editor and the maximum discount retailers are able to do is 5%. 10% on special occasions. And that is all.
To compare, a regular paperback is around 18€, hardcover around 21-24€ and a mass market 6-10€.

So you can imagine how we spanish feel when we go to the UK or the States and compare prices :S

By: Myke

Myke — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:34:18 +0000

“To my taste it is a little above Elantris”

Sanderson!

By: Peat

Peat — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:27:19 +0000

It’s great to see that Spanish readers are enjoying the book. I was a little surprised at the price myself. 26 Euros seems like a lot for a trade paperback, though I don’t really have a basis for comparison.

I also don’t know if that comes from the publisher or the retailers. In the US and UK, publishers print the price right on the book. Retailers can discount the price at a cost to their own profits, but not exceed it. The Spanish version does not have a price printed on it, so there may be a different system in place in Spain.

By: Lucía

Lucía — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:29:00 +0000

This is a free translation of relevant comments:
reycat wrote: yesterday in the bookstore this book catch my interest (and not thanks to the title). One of the few books that a cover has told me more than the title…
This has surprised me quite, quite nicely. It’s neither a gigantic work as A song of Ice and Fire nor soft, soft as Chronicles of the Dragonlance. To my taste it is a little above Elantris or The final Empire, with a similar style.
Well built characters, a story than ends (even though it leaves room for a continuation) and a story telling that catchs you.

i recommended it to all those who enjoy fantasy.

reycat: Peter Brett himself has confirmed that Poul Anderson has bought the rights for the movies.
I hope that having a good foundation it’ll be a good movie.
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More to come.