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Interview #120: WH Signing Report - Hawk, Entry #6

Question

There were a lot of fans upset at your decision to sell the Prologue to S&S as an ebook, and there were other people upset at your “special introduction”, thinking that you were mocking your fans. What was your intent/how did this come about?

Robert Jordan

People who got upset about the “special introduction” need to “take a break and get a milkshake.” The introduction was definitely about mocking ebooks and how it really did feel like selling your soul. S&S came to him and begged for something—anything—to sell from Winter’s Heart as an ebook. He didn’t go to them at all.

Question

Do you think you’ll ever put the books out in electronic format?

Robert Jordan

When there’s a reader that he can “drop in the water, dry with a hair dryer, and then read” he’ll move over to ebooks. He’s also waiting for the industry to hash out its standards. He expects that to take another 5 years or so.

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