I can’t say I didn’t expect this, but Locus Online is reporting that ibooks and Byron Preiss Visual Publications both closed their doors yesterday after filing for bankruptcy. No doubt publisher Preiss’ untimely death in an auto accident last summer has something to do with the companies’ demise (and recent erratic publishing schedule).
So what does this mean for those as-yet-unreleased ibooks titles like the inaugural HORROR: THE BEST OF 2005 or the usual year-enders for sci-fi and fantasy? Though no official announcement has been made, I suspect we won’t see them. Damn.
Some past ibooks titles we’ve reviewed in our short time here:
• JACK THE RIPPER
• MISTER X: THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION VOLUME TWO
• MYSTERY FOR CHRISTMAS
• THE ULTIMATE FRANKENSTEIN
• THE ULTIMATE HALLOWEEN
• YEAR’S BEST GRAPHIC NOVELS, COMICS & MANGA
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- The Ultimate Frankenstein
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- Finally! HORROR to get its own BEST OF anthology in ’06
- How much KONG can you handle?
- Contents for ’05 SF/FANTASY BEST OFs revealed
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Just in from a reliable source
Press Release:
Prime Books is proud to announce a new series of “year’s best” fiction anthologies covering science fiction, fantasy, and horror, for early summer releases in trade paperback editions. Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, and Fantasy: The Best of the Year, will be edited by notable genre expert Rich Horton. Horror: The Best of the Year will be edited by World Fantasy Award-nominated editors John Gregory Betancourt and Sean Wallace. Covering the best short fiction of 2005 these three anthologes will repint modern classics from authors including Clive Barker, Peter Beagle, Ramsey Campbell, Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, James Patrick Kelly, Caitlin Kiernan, Joe Lansdale, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Michael Marshall Smith, Michael Swanwick, Gene Wolfe, and many more. Trade distribution by Diamond Books Distributors.