Update on E-book Publication
We have been advised by Random House Children’s books that they have discovered a few minor problems with the Swallows and Amazons series e-books released on 30 June.
As a result they are temporarily withdrawing the books from sale. Retailers, such as Amazon and ibooks, will be updating their websites accordingly. This will take a little time, but should be done by tomorrow (Saturday).
RHCB expect to issue corrected versions next week. In the meantime they offer sincere apologies for any disapppointment caused.
They advise us that most of the problems are minor, and probably won’t affect readers’ enjoyment of any copies they’ve already bought. However, arrangements will be put in place to ensure that anyone who has already bought copies can obtain corrected updates, once these are released.
For example, we understand that Amazon will inform Kindle users when the replacement versions are available, and each user will then have the option of whether to take the update.
The most visible change will be in Swallows and Amazons, where the corrected e-edition will contain Stephen Spurrier’s original endpaper map, rather than the map currently used in the hardback and paperback editions.
The twelve Swallows and Amazons novels include Swallows and Amazons, Swallowdale, Winter Holiday, Pigeon Post and The Picts and the Martyrs (set in the Lake District), Coot Club and The Big Six (set on the Norfolk Broads), We Didn’t Mean to go to Sea and Secret Water (set on the East Coast and North Sea, around Harwich), Great Northern? (set in the Outer Hebrides) and two fantasy novels, Peter Duck and Missee Lee (set in the Caribbean and China). They were first published by Jonathan Cape between 1930 and 1947 and all twelve have been in print in hardback ever since. They are currently available from Random House in both hardback (Jonathan Cape) and paperback (Red Fox) editions.
