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Hardy Boys Casefiles Discussion => Hardy Boys Casefiles => Topic started by: Bigfootman on March 27, 2010, 07:18:06 PM

Title: Darkness Falls e-book
Post by: Bigfootman on March 27, 2010, 07:18:06 PM
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/b106914/Darkness-Falls-/Franklin-W-Dixon/?si=0
It seems that S+S have realesed Darkness Falls as an e-book.
Title: Re: Darkness Falls e-book
Post by: tomswift2002 on March 28, 2010, 12:52:41 PM
Interesting how they say that the Casefiles have 10.7 million "copies in print", considering the Casefiles have been discontinued for a while.
Title: Re: Darkness Falls e-book
Post by: Bigfootman on March 29, 2010, 05:15:54 PM
Quote from: tomswift2002 on March 28, 2010, 12:52:41 PM
Interesting how they say that the Casefiles have 10.7 million "copies in print", considering the Casefiles have been discontinued for a while.
Prehaps when the series got cancilled they still had books left, that's why some turned up in doller stores, or prehaps they are counting the ones that they sold before the casefiles series was cancilled. It's strange.
Title: Re: Darkness Falls e-book
Post by: SDLagent on March 30, 2010, 12:08:25 AM
Calling it a "Consistently a bestselling hit" is strange, too. Good marketing, I guess...
Title: Re: Darkness Falls e-book
Post by: kosmicdust on September 05, 2010, 11:20:19 AM
This title was still in print here in the UK until recently, as an Undercover Brothers hybrid edition:

http://www.hardyboys.co.uk/gallery/c089.php (http://www.hardyboys.co.uk/gallery/c089.php)
Title: Re: Darkness Falls e-book
Post by: tomswift2002 on September 19, 2010, 03:31:12 PM
Well the book is no longer available in e-book form.
Title: Re: Darkness Falls e-book
Post by: JoeHardyRocks on February 18, 2011, 04:07:50 PM
Quote from: tomswift2002 on September 19, 2010, 03:31:12 PM
Well the book is no longer available in e-book form.

My sister got this on her Kindle like 3 weeks ago, so yeah it is.... :-\
Title: Re: Darkness Falls e-book
Post by: Bigfootman on February 18, 2011, 05:11:32 PM
Why haven't they released anymore Casefiles in e-book form?
Title: Re: Darkness Falls e-book
Post by: JoeHardyRocks on February 18, 2011, 05:56:23 PM
Maybe they think they're too old and unpopular  :'( :P
Title: Re: Darkness Falls e-book
Post by: Bigfootman on February 18, 2011, 06:03:33 PM
Quote from: JoeHardyRocks on February 18, 2011, 05:56:23 PM
Maybe they think they're too old and unpopular  :'( :P
Or prehaps S$S forget to adventive the Darkness Falls e-book! I'm sure if they had advertised it, it would sell well.
Title: Re: Darkness Falls e-book
Post by: JoeHardyRocks on February 18, 2011, 06:05:05 PM
The only reason my sis found it was because she made me look them up for her, we didn't even know they had Casefiles e-books before then.
Title: Re: Darkness Falls e-book
Post by: Bigfootman on February 18, 2011, 06:10:24 PM
Quote from: JoeHardyRocks on February 18, 2011, 06:05:05 PM
The only reason my sis found it was because she made me look them up for her, we didn't even know they had Casefiles e-books before then.
I only found it because I was on the S$S website, and saw it, almost TWO YEARS after it was released.
Title: Re: Darkness Falls e-book
Post by: Hardy Sleuth on July 29, 2011, 01:08:29 AM
I have this one in eBook. They also have available most all of the blue hardcovers, quite a few Digests (and I look forward to more! ;D) and Undercover Brothers.
Title: Re: Darkness Falls e-book
Post by: Bigfootman on August 23, 2011, 12:20:34 PM
Quote from: Hardy Sleuth on July 29, 2011, 01:08:29 AM
I have this one in eBook. They also have available most all of the blue hardcovers, quite a few Digests (and I look forward to more! ;D) and Undercover Brothers.
They do have bluespines available in e-book format, but they are the revised editions, not the original ones. I do have a theory as to why more Casefiles aren't being released in e-book format. In quite a few of the Casefiles, Frank and Joe encounter terrorists. Considering what's been going on recently in the Middle East, S$S probably didn't want any controversy. Moral Guardians tend to get angry easily, and will start protesting against anything they don't feel is appropriate for kids.

S$S  is releasing 2 new Hardy Boys ebooks and 5 new Nancy Drew ebooks in September.
Title: Re: Darkness Falls e-book
Post by: tomswift2002 on August 24, 2011, 04:49:39 PM
Quote from: Dinosaur Dan on August 23, 2011, 12:20:34 PM
They do have bluespines available in e-book format, but they are the revised editions, not the original ones. I do have a theory as to why more Casefiles aren't being released in e-book format. In quite a few of the Casefiles, Frank and Joe encounter terrorists. Considering what's been going on recently in the Middle East, S$S probably didn't want any controversy. Moral Guardians tend to get angry easily, and will start protesting against anything they don't feel is appropriate for kids.

No, I don't think that's the reason.  It's more likely that Simon & Schuster doesn't see the chance for any more profit in the series and thinks that it is too old to reissue, and Darkness Falls was only a test book to see if there was the chance for profit.
Title: Re: Darkness Falls e-book
Post by: SDLagent on August 24, 2011, 06:28:37 PM
Yeah, I don't think S&S would see much point in releasing a series of paperback novels from the 80s in eBook form. Even though the series does have somewhat of a cult following online, I don't think S&S could make much money off Casefiles eBook. Especially considering that most Hardy fans would rather have the real book.
Title: Re: Darkness Falls e-book
Post by: tomswift2002 on August 24, 2011, 08:19:36 PM
Now then we may see the Casefiles appear as ebooks well before 2087 (100 years after the copyright was originally issued on Dead On Target and all the books released in 1987, meaning that the books will be in the public domain) but S&S probably won't release them until they've finished releasing the Mystery Stories, Undercover Brothers and any future series in ebook.
Title: Re: Darkness Falls e-book
Post by: Hardy Sleuth on October 04, 2011, 01:00:07 AM
Quote from: Dinosaur Dan on August 23, 2011, 12:20:34 PM
They do have bluespines available in e-book format, but they are the revised editions, not the original ones.

Yeah, those are the ones I'm referring to, the revised editions. 8) I like eBooks and I love real paper books. 8)