POLL: When will you buy An Echo in the Bone

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

We've been having some discussion about the original price of the K-version ($16.50), so I thought we might take a poll.  This way, we can decide when to start the Klub going.  

In the meantime, they pulled the link for the K-version, so I'm posting the HC link.  Keep clicking so they know that a lot of us want this book on Kindle.  My personal opinion is that we won't have long to wait, but we might have to wait a couple of weeks for the price to come down.  This is one that should hit the best seller list quickly.  

[RavenclawPrefect]

I am so glad you posted they pulled the K version!  I went to look at it (again) yesterday and could not find it.  Then I wondered if I just imagined it. 

Yikes, $16+ is a bit pricey.  Hopefully it will go down to $9.99 so I can get it. I did click the I want this on Kindle link

[NessaBug]

I said I'm waiting for it to be $9.99.m That being said, if for some reason it doesn't come down, I may go after it in hardback from the library. With my puny little wrists, I can't imagine that will be as enjoyable though.

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

I said I'm waiting for it to be $9.99.m That being said, if for some reason it doesn't come down, I may go after it in hardback from the library. With my puny little wrists, I can't imagine that will be as enjoyable though.

Because of your post, I checked the page count.  It's 832 pages long.  Then I realized that I hadn't read the blurb.  Having read that, I might just buy it as soon as it comes out.  Here it is.  The spoiler tag is for those who haven't finished Book 6, yet. 

Diana Gabaldon’s brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga. Now, in An Echo in the Bone, the enormously anticipated seventh volume, Gabaldon continues the extraordinary story of the eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall.

Jamie Fraser, former Jacobite and reluctant rebel, is already certain of three things about the American rebellion: The Americans will win, fighting on the side of victory is no guarantee of survival, and he’d rather die than have to face his illegitimate son–a young lieutenant in the British army–across the barrel of a gun.

Claire Randall knows that the Americans will win, too, but not what the ultimate price may be. That price won’t include Jamie’s life or his happiness, though–not if she has anything to say about it.

Meanwhile, in the relative safety of the twentieth century, Jamie and Claire’s daughter, Brianna, and her husband, Roger MacKenzie, have resettled in a historic Scottish home where, across a chasm of two centuries, the unfolding drama of Brianna’s parents’ story comes to life through Claire’s letters. The fragile pages reveal Claire’s love for battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and their flight from North Carolina to the high seas, where they encounter privateers and ocean battles–as Brianna and Roger search for clues not only to Claire’s fate but to their own. Because the future of the MacKenzie family in the Highlands is mysteriously, irrevocably, and intimately entwined with life and death in war-torn colonial America.

With stunning cameos of historical characters from Benedict Arnold to Benjamin Franklin, An Echo in the Bone is a soaring masterpiece of imagination, insight, character, and adventure–a novel that echoes in the mind long after the last page is turned.

[NessaBug]

AAAH! You should put a spoiler over the Brianna part! I haven't finished Book 6 yet! I've been avoiding reading the synopsis. And now I know something that will happen in it presumably.

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

AAAH! You should put a spoiler over the Brianna part! I haven't finished Book 6 yet! I've been avoiding reading the synopsis. And now I know something that will happen in it presumably.

Sorry about that.  I will do it so I don't spoil for anyone else.  (hangingheadinshame)

[NessaBug]

Thank you. I also am guilty of spoiling things. I spoiled Project Runway last night for at least one of my West Coast peeps and she got me for it. *hangs head as well*

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

Thank you. I also am guilty of spoiling things. I spoiled Project Runway last night for at least one of my West Coast peeps and she got me for it. *hangs head as well*

Yeah, but we all knew (or at least hoped) who was going to be auf'd.   

[NessaBug]

Third time is a charm, though we did have to sit through his awfulness.

Got to go back to Jamie; I left him in a puddle and wondering where Claire is.

[Luvmy4brats]

It depends on whether or not it's available on audible. If it is, I'll get the audio version and wait for the Kindle price to drop. If it's not, I'll probably buy the book on day one. It has the potential to be the first book I've purchased for more than $9.99.

It's really no different than me buying 3 hardback copies of Deathly Hallows when it came out so we didn't have to share.

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

It depends on whether or not it's available on audible. If it is, I'll get the audio version and wait for the Kindle price to drop. If it's not, I'll probably buy the book on day one. It has the potential to be the first book I've purchased for more than $9.99.

Me, too.  After reading the description, I'm really starting to anticipate. 

It's really no different than me buying 3 hardback copies of Deathly Hallows when it came out so we didn't have to share.

Now that was a good decision.   

[CegAbq]

OK - I voted this am but am offering additional comments: I'll wait for the price to come down; I am desperately hoping that audible has it - so I can start listening right away.

And - this is my 500th Post!! Very excited, never imagined I'd get this far. Love the 'boards!!!

[Tippy]

Congrats Ceq on your 500th post.  Money shmoney I'm getting that book the minute it is released.   

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

OK - I voted this am but am offering additional comments: I'll wait for the price to come down; I am desperately hoping that audible has it - so I can start listening right away.

Have you check if audible has it for pre-order?  I would imagine it takes quite some time to put out an audio book. 

And - this is my 500th Post!! Very excited, never imagined I'd get this far. Love the 'boards!!!

How wonderful that you reached 500 in an Outlander thread. 

Congrats Ceq on your 500th post.  Money shmoney I'm getting that book the minute it is released.   

Yeah, I changed my vote.  I'm getting it as soon as it comes out.  I have $20 left on a GC and that's where it's going.  Besides, isn't it my duty as the leader of the Klub to read it right away?  (that's my story and I'm sticking to it)

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

In the meantime, everyone, go to the top of this thread to click for Kindle.  Let's bombard them so it comes out the same day as the DTB.  

[Tippy]

Audible does not have it on their Coming Soon list.  Dang.  BTW, I am buying AEITB in hardback so my Gabaldon DTB collection is complete.

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

Audible does not have it on their Coming Soon list.  Dang.  BTW, I am buying AEITB in hardback so my Gabaldon DTB collection is complete.

I was going to do that, but my HB of The Fiery Cross is falling apart even though I only read it once.  I don't want to spend $18 on a book that might not last. 

[NessaBug]

On the pre-order page, it does list the audio CD verison for 50.39 (ouch!), so I would take that to mean that Audible might get it soon. I've never used Audible, so I don't know the pattern there.

[CegAbq]

Have you check if audible has it for pre-order?  I would imagine it takes quite some time to put out an audio book. 

Well - there was another book that was released in paper version on 8-25-09. I really wanted the audioversion. I kept checking the audible site for a few weeks in advance right up to the day before it was released & audible never showed it as coming soon or anything. Then the afternoon of 8-25 I checked audible again & there is was READY.
So I've got my fingers crossed that Echo might be the same way if it's not locked up like Fiery Cross & Breath were.

[Luvmy4brats]

Now that was a good decision.   

and the CDs....  I think the cashiers at BN thought I was a little crazy & obsessed.

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

and the CDs....  I think the cashiers at BN thought I was a little crazy & obsessed.

But in a good way.   

[Luvmy4brats]

But in a good way.   

I was just being selfish 

Luckily with Echo, I don't have to share with anybody.

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

The price of the hardcover has dropped to $16.50.  Still no sign of the kindle.

[EllenR]

I'm struggling with this question. I have the rest of the series in Trade paper or Hard cover (just a couple) so I feel like I should complete the collection. However, I don't read paper books anymore and I don't want to! LOL Geez, what is wrong with me?

EllenR

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

I'm struggling with this question. I have the rest of the series in Trade paper or Hard cover (just a couple) so I feel like I should complete the collection. However, I don't read paper books anymore and I don't want to! LOL Geez, what is wrong with me?

EllenR

Ellen, I struggled with this issue, too.  For this series, I did end up replacing all of them with the Kindle versions and I really wanted to complete my hard copy set.  If this was the last in the series, I might do that, but with one more to go, I can't bring myself to do it.  Since I've got them all on Kindle, I'll just complete the series that way.

I have the same problem with other series, and I'm just continuing to buy them in the K version, but not replacing the paper copies. 

Like you, I just don't read paper books anymore.  I'm especially not going to read an 882 page hard back book ever again.