I think it’s a shallow story that’s overrated

Yes, lots of books get cancelled when editors leave publishers. It happened to me. One of my novels was bought by an editor at Harcourt but when it merged with Houghton Miflin she was laid off. The book did technically get published, it was reviewed in Publishers Weekly and some copies made it to book stores but with no editor in house at the publisher it got zero marketing and publicity and didn’t sell many copies.

It is similar to what happens to movies in production when new studio execs are brought in.

The only book cover that immediately comes to mind is Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldtree. The UK version, imo, looks really good while the US version doesn't.

I don’t think it’s a book for people who have stopped dreaming (also referred to in some circles as ‘old people’).

There are a variety of reasons a book may cancelled and not published.

Sure, there are lots of unfinished series or books out there. Sometimes, an author dies (Charles Dickens and The Mystery of Edwin Drood), sometimes they’re unable to for health reasons (Octavia Butler and her Parable series), and sometimes they make lots of excuses but seem to either have lost interest or just not know what to write next (George Martin and ASOIF).

Sometimes publishers cancel a planned book, usually due to public pressure, but that’s more like the type of canceling you mentioned you’re not looking for.

Winds of Winter, by George RR Martin

For me,it is the weakest book Paulo's.. for example, read "11 minutes" and compare with "alchemist"..Paulo can describe feelings, the best way, however, can't open window fighting for your goals. He can describe emotion in the best way, can't make notion...in this category - motivation or such as, it is wast of time.. But Paulo has own place in the world of literature..

According to this Wikipedia article yes there were books that ended up not being published due to reasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unpublished_books

This. And not just the covers: when I moved to the US, I remember being annoyed at the spines never being standardized. Fonts and sizes all over the place, garish colors, sometimes they even shined... My shelf feels like being in front of a bulleting board covered with ads and fliers T_T

I got used to it after a bit though, I suppose there's some charm in this mess too!

I deeply disliked it, bordering on hatred. But taste is individual and surely you would dislike some things I hold dear.

Obvious conclusion. It's idealistically nice that books could be free but it's plainly against the law.

The language is too simple to be of any literary value, there is no philosophy to speak of, the "lesson" itself is pretty vague and ambivalent. Overall you can enjoy it but don't expect it to be on the same level as reading Charles Dickens or Mark Twain.

Right call. IA was in blatant violation of copyright law. Even as somebody who wants copyright law heavily reformed, what they were doing was a step too far.

The fine is incredible, but reportedly something IA can weather.

I wouldn't worry too much about the book world's opinion on the literary value of a story 😀

I think because it's a fairly shallow in its "inspirational" aspirations.

The "live, laugh, love" of books.

Amen. Order out people

It helped me to read up a brief commentary on Eastern Orthodoxy, so I could understand some of the cultural background. It is a super dense and complex read.

I mean, Michael Whelan covers! Though he's been doing covers for decades.

There is probably a mix of covers, though.

I really enjoyed the book too. I thought it was a cool, unique story.

Actually, a copy for personal use is quite legal. Publishers HATE it, and have been doing their best to overturn it for a long time. (Video game publishers especially.) The only thing clearly established as illegal after this ruling is that IA couldn't lend more copies than they had, which honestly was pretty clear before and I think the IA was banking on consideration for the circumstances.

The publishers are using this as an avenue to attack being able to make a copy in a new format (which is the thing that has always angered video game publishers especially). They would like to force people to buy new copies of a product every time there is a new popular format, where right now people do it because generally it's pretty cheap and definitely more convenient than making your own copy. There are books and games I have 5 legal copies of simply because it's way easier to spend a couple bucks to get them on a new service than going through the steps to convert my existing copies.

Everyone should be concerned about the publishers stretching the ruling to that point, because it won't take long for them to introduce new formats to push repeat sales.

You know that real teenagers often get into romantic relationships, right?

Now, I CAN understand the complaint that the YA market as a whole has too much focus on romance. As much as people tout YA for its diversity, it's actually a pretty limited category in terms of stories and plots. I actually have a whole rant on how American media does a poor job of catering to teenagers, ha ha. But that's a problem with the market as a whole, it's not a problem with individual books. There's nothing inherently wrong with a teen romance story.

The worst is when there’s a movie or tv tie-in cover for a book

I think book covers have been going through an ugly phase over the past decade. They were also ugly in the 80s. In the 90s and early 2000s, they were usually pretty good