Legacy Books Press is proud to announce the launch of the LBP e-book line.  Now, new books from Legacy Books Press are also available as Adobe Digital Editions e-books for the low price of $12.95 US.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora is now for sale at Powells, Ebookmall, Diesel E-books, and Booksonboard.

The Secret History of Star Wars is now for sale at Powells, Ebookmall, Diesel E-books, and coming soon from Booksonboard.

The War that Changed the World is now for sale at Powells, Ebookmall, Diesel E-books, and Booksonboard.

The Face of the Foe is now for sale at Powells, Ebookmall, Diesel E-books, and Booksonboard.

Bayonets and Blobsticks is now for sale at Powells, Ebookmall, Diesel E-books, and Booksonboard.


Frequently Asked Questions

1. Does the LBP e-book line include titles from Legacy Books Press Classics?

A: No.  While there may be some exceptions down the road, most, if not all, LBP Classics books are already available as free e-books.

2. What formats does the LBP e-book line use?

A: At this point, the LBP e-book line is only available in Adobe Digital Editions PDF format.  This is due to the nature of the books Legacy Books Press publishes – as history books, they tend to have a lot of footnotes and endnotes, which are not yet supported properly in other formats.

3. Does the LBP e-book line use DRM?

A: Unfortunately, yes.  While in an ideal world there would be no e-book piracy, making copy protection unnecessary, we do not live in an ideal world.  As a publisher, Legacy Books Press has a duty to see to the interests of its authors, and one of those interests is ensuring that their royalties are not reduced from e-book piracy.

And, Discovery’s Curiosity series has done it again.

Actually, let me start this way: dear producers of Curiosity, when the reaction to your examination of the world’s most famous nautical disaster is hysterical laughter, you’ve done it wrong.

Oh, where to begin?  Curiosity: Inside the Titanic was so hilariously bad that Titanic II was a better movie.  Seriously.  A movie by the Asylum was better than this.  It was so bad that both times I had the opportunity to watch the thing through to the end, I changed the channel at the one hour mark to something better.  It wasn’t gripping, although it did inspire some of the morbid fascination one gets when watching a car crash.
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Once again, the New York Times has published a review of Game of Thrones, and once again it has become the subject of some controversy.  However, while in 2011 the controversy was well deserved, in this case I can't help feeling that perhaps a mountain is being made of a molehill.
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For the last four years, I have been proud to publish The Secret History of Star Wars, by Michael Kaminski.  It is a truly amazing book, and a labour of love, made all the more relevant now by the February re-release of The Phantom Menace.

Unfortunately, for at least a month, and quite possibly for much longer, anybody going to Amazon.com to purchase this wonderful book has been informed by the Amazon listing that The Secret History of Star Wars will ship within 1-3 weeks.  This is, to put it bluntly, a wildly inaccurate statement.

The Secret History of Star Wars is printed using print-on-demand technology by a company named Lightning Source.  Lightning Source is owned by Ingram, a wholesaler of books with effectively worldwide distribution.  Any time the book is ordered through any bookstore, online or brick-and-mortar, a copy is printed and shipped within 24 hours.

At this point in time, we do not know why Amazon is listing the shipping time at 1-3 weeks.  It may be that it is an error in their system, or that there is a legitimate delay on their end.  Steps are being taken to attempt to correct this issue, and hopefully it will not take long.

However, until this issue is corrected, anybody interested in picking up The Secret History of Star Wars can purchase it from Barnes & Noble or (in Canada) from Chapters-Indigo.  Any books from Barnes & Noble or Chapters-Indigo will ship within 24 hours.

The Secret History of Star Wars can be found at Barnes & Noble at http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-secret-history-of-star-wars-michael-kaminski/1017752625?ean=9780978465230&itm=1&

...and at Indigo at http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Secret-History-Star-Wars-Michael-Kaminski/9780978465230-item.html?ikwid=secret+history+of+star+wars&ikwsec=Home

Yes, I know it's been a while - I've been busy, and I've been sick (stupid influenza).

Taking a trip down memory lane, once upon a time a horror movie was released unlike just about any other.  It was called Saw.  Rather than being another tired slasher movie, as had become the norm after Scream revitalized the genre, or reveling in gore, as had been the norm for even longer, it was something new.  There were no nubile teenagers or disposable characters for the killer to brutally murder.  Just two grown men, waking up chained in a dingy bathroom, with a demand from the killer to do the horrific or die, along with one of the man's families, and a deadline.

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I'm going to start this post by saying that one of my hobbies is comparative religion.  I love exploring other cultures, and learning about belief systems.  But, it seems for every faith, there is a lunatic, militant fringe.  When it comes to atheism, I call this evangelical atheism.

And, no, I am not a fan.  I've got at least one or two friends who are confirmed atheists, and there's nothing wrong with that.  By itself, atheism is a religion, just like any other (although there are no shortage of atheists who would likely disagree).  Any religion is ultimately a belief system concerning where human beings fit in with those things that are greater than us.  Christianity and Judaism place look to God for that answer.  Atheism looks to science.  It's all the same process, though.  The problem is that evangelical atheism seeks to convert others to atheism, and as a result, tend to commit a few of what I would consider cardinal religious sins:

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Well, I just want to wish everybody reading this a very merry Christmas, a happy Chanukah, and a wonderful New Year.

After all, as it was said in last year's Doctor Who Christmas special, we're halfway out of the dark now.

One of my favourite websites, Cracked, just ran a very interesting article.  It's about tired (and often wrong) arguments being used by both evangelicals and atheists.

On this lovely Christmas Eve...um...day, I'm going to run a quick counter-post.  You see, I'm a semi-practicing Jew, and I recently had an experience that changed my view on organized religion and Christianity.  I fell in love with and became engaged to a devout Catholic.  And, in retrospect, it's amazing just how much of how we sometimes see religion depicted through a lens of atheist propaganda, or the actions of a lunatic minority being seen as representing the majority.

So, here are some surprising truths I have learned about modern Catholicism:


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I'm the first to admit that I'm not a graphic designer.  And, I make no claims to being a website designer of any note.  When it comes to the Legacy Books Press website, which I did the basic design on, the word that comes to mind is "workable," or "workmanlike."  But, it also works.  I wish I could say the same about the new website design for the Escapist, which is just ugly.

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Frankly, in some ways, this has not been a good time to be a Queen’s University grad.

Let me be up-front here – I’ve got two degrees from Queen’s, a BA in 1999, and another BA in 2006.  And I’m proud of that education.  Contrary to what has become popular belief, Queen’s is not a party school.  They worked my hindquarters off before they gave me either one of my degrees, and my workload was frequently measured in the hundreds of pages per week.

Now, when you’ve got hard work, you’ve got steam that needs to be released.  I used to joke that Queen’s doesn’t have frats because it doesn’t need frats – it has engineers.  But those engineers also worked their tails off, and while at times I did get tired of hearing my friends in the engineering faculty complain about their workload, I was also never able to top it.

Lately, though, I can’t say I’m proud of my first (and possibly, fondest) alma mater.  In fact, I’m at the point where if I had university-aged children, I’m not sure I’d want them enrolling there.

This latest embarrassment has come from the Queen’s Bands.  I have fond memories of watching them play – I’ve even marched as an alumnus during the Homecoming football game behind them.  In fact, it was a Queen’s bagpipe player that sold me on going to the university in the first place.  But this latest bit of news, well, it’s enough to make me want to disown them.

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