I’m pleased to see that the Kindle ebook edition of Letters to James F. Morton has returned to Amazon UK and USA. The ebook had vanished in the summer. I’ve corrected my recent post on Lovecraft’s 2018: a year in brief review accordingly, and the text now reads…

“Several ebooks vanished from Amazon, such as Lovecraft’s Letters to James F. Morton, and H.P. Lovecraft: New England Decadent. So did the Arthur C. Clarke biography, which is of interest re: the early Lovecraft influence. The Morton letters later returned to Amazon, at the end of the year, but such vanishings suggest it is perilous for scholars to assume that once an ebook is published it will always remain available.”

Sadly it seems this has blanked the keyword-search ability, inside the book. My old Kindle 3 ebook of Morton can still be keyword searched. The same book on my Kindle Fire HD cannot be searched. I suspect this is because the Kindle Fire HD is set to auto-update a book to the latest edition, and the Kindle 3 isn’t. This then illustrates one of the perils of ebooks over paper books.