Name: A Memory of Light
ISBN: 9780356517131

A Memory of Light

Since 1990, when Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time® burst on the world with its first book, The Eye of the World, readers have been anticipating the final scenes of this extraordinary saga, which has sold over forty million copies in over thirty languages. When Robert Jordan died in 2007, all feared that these concluding scenes would never be written. But working from notes and partials left by Jordan, established fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson stepped in to complete the masterwork. With The Gathering Storm (Book 12) and Towers of Midnight (Book 13) behind him, both of which were # 1 New York Times hardcover bestsellers, Sanderson now re-creates the vision that Robert Jordan left behind. Edited by Jordan’s widow, who edited all of Jordan’s books, A Memory of Light will delight, enthrall, and deeply satisfy all of Jordan’s legions of readers. The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.

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abakkerAug 2014

Of the 3 books Sanderson is credited as having written, he wrote more of the first two than the final volume. A Memory of Light had significant scenes written by RJ himself. Sanderson had to contribute heavily to the first 2 he wrote to get story lines wrapped up to RJ's specs, and to get everything to converge to match RJ's existing passages for AMoL.

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GFischerApr 2013

Probably several (of the top Google results) would result on an actual download... after a lot of redirects and malware installs.

Edit: let's test it :)

Search: scott turow ebook download

1st link - paid site (did not try)

2nd link - 1 redirect, ended up on a chinese site, donwloaded. PDF, opened perfectly. Less than one minute download.

3rd link - direct download

The books were: Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow, and El peso de la prueba – Scott Turow

That's a hard barrier indeed.

But the hardest is jumping over the hurdle that is legal distribution (and the awful royalty bargains the author mentions).

I've desisted of buying some ebooks on Amazon due to unreasonable prices and/or delayed release dates. Case in point, A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan, I went credit card in hand to Amazon's site to buy it... but they're not selling it, only the paper version.

I'd also pay for a Netflix ebook equivalent, probably more than I do for Netflix itself.

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whatusernameApr 2012

Of course -- in the comments on the tor.com article: "Worldwide distribution is a much harder problem. Most of our contracts with authors grant us rights only in certain territories; we can't just unilaterally rewrite existing agreements."

I'm really interested to see what they do with a Memory of Light (the final wheel of time book). Brandon Sanderson has been pushing for things like getting a free ebook when you purchase the hardcover, but when I saw him in melb a few weeks ago he was saying those kind of solutions where more for his own books. WoT was too big a deal for TOR to play around with.

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