CD gets points!!! Very nice guys!!!
Wish List:
Any of the following flatsigned or inscribed-
It, Shining, Salem’s Lot, Mr. Mercedes, The Stand
Brother ARC, Seed ARC
WANTED:
Dust jacket for The Shining SNL.
Dust jacket for 25th Anniversary edition of IT, signed, numbered, tray-cased copy.
Signed numbered limited edition of Josh Malerman's Goblin, published by Earthling Publications.
Gosh I'm sure this question was asked a dozen times already and I apologize in advance - but I'm in the market for a set of the CD Carrie, SL, The Shining, and while I know Night Shift isn't in hand yet, for someone to have a "matching set" do the rights get transferred with the last book? Asking before I pull any triggers.
That statement is true. This statement is not:
In fact I will go further than that and say that no individual purchaser has any 'legal' rights to receive a matching designation. Most smaller publishers will go to great lengths to ensure you have a matching number or letter but are under no legal obligation to do so.
Even Suntup - who's extensive matching process I am intimately familiar with (and it is waaay more complex than you could possibly imagine) will only 'try' to match your previous designation. Again there is no legal requirement for Paul to do this, just good customer service.
"A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
Verry helpful. I'm late to the game of buying the CD DD books - and while I would prefer (and pay more for) a matching set, I don't want to go through the expense of buying the set (then negotiating for Night Shift) only to have the books and not be able to reserve the next one. If it's a matter of sending proof that I am in possession of the latest, great. But if it's a registration system (which it sounds as though it's not), then damn.
Given CDs organizational problems, suggesting that they deal with matching numbers for pedantic collectors is nothing short of sadistic. The perfect storm. At best, hope you will receive your CD book before dying of old age to avoid unnecessary grief.
I think if you have Carrie, ‘Salem’s Lot, and The Shining all the same number then you should be good with a request via email to Mindy for that number of Night Shift. Unless you’re a lifetime subscriber, CD doesn’t hold numbers. And if you own all the same number, then I doubt any one else will request that number because they won’t need to match the previous releases. If you know the number I’d move this convo to email with Mindy.
Though I think you should be fine.
But what I think and what I know and reality are three very different things with very little overlap.
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Generally speaking first dibs goes to whoever bought the previous book in the series. Now if that person happened to have sold off their whole set, but still has say Night Shift on order with a matching number request. Often we'll contact them to see if they still need the matching number. But there's another wrench in the works here, and that's retailers. They pretty much all get matching numbers and they continue to get those numbers (even though they sell their books). There's only a handful of times where I've pulled a number from a retailer, and they weren't happy about it. So we always do what we can, but we can make no promises. This all said, if you're looking for a full matching set, shoot me an email I might be able to hook you up (no promises though)
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Dead Zone First Edition F/F or NF/NF
"A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
WANTED:
Dust jacket for The Shining SNL.
Dust jacket for 25th Anniversary edition of IT, signed, numbered, tray-cased copy.
Signed numbered limited edition of Josh Malerman's Goblin, published by Earthling Publications.