Year's Best Fantasy Vol 9 is the first book from Tor.com

Pablo from Tor.com sez:

It's a big week for Tor.com! We're proud to announce the immediate availability of David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer's definitive anthology, Year's Best Fantasy 9.

This highly anticipated release also marks something we're particularly proud of: Tor.com's debut as a publishing entity, distinct from Tor Books and as a separate imprint under our shared corporate overlords at Macmillan.

YBF 9 is available only as a print-on-demand book, in keeping with our mission of exploring alternative forms of publishing. Similar to the launch of the Tor.com Store and the serialization of Cory Doctorow's Makers, this title is one of our various publishing projects that seek to experiment with the available alternatives to publishing's traditional sales, distribution, and delivery mechanisms.

Announcing Year's Best Fantasy 9 (Thanks, Pablo!)

[#1 posted by jamiethehutt, September 10, 2009 3:43 AM]

While this does look like a good collection and I am quite interested in short stories this post is really just an advertisement. If you were able to read a few of the stories, or the entire collection then I think it would of been Boing Boing worthy but this just reports that yet another anthology has gone on sale...

[#2 posted by Avram / Moderator, September 10, 2009 8:58 AM]

Jamie @1, Cory blogs about other people's books all the time. Why are you complaining about this one?

[#3 posted by sfinsfevents, September 11, 2009 1:16 PM]

Feel free to also check out their previous YB 6,7,8, all available in print as a trade paperback, from Tachyon Publications; buy online at www.tachyonpublications.com, or at your local independent bookstore. They are indeed, an excellent series!!

[#4 posted by jamiethehutt, September 12, 2009 3:10 AM]

@Avram, well I often am pretty frustrated on reading a good blurb from Cory, clicking the link and then finding myself on Amazon rather than a page with more information, or exerts, or whatever. When it comes to posts about books/literary stuff the recent post about Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore is what I like to see, good blurb (as always ;-)), linking to truly excellent content which leaves me interested and wanting more.

While this is probably a good anthology, it's just and only that, "oh that looks good, but I don't have the cash, maybe I would find it if I knew more but there's a big pile of anthologies at the local second hand book store that I KNOW are good and cost way less than Amazon's postage". It's basically a "so what, move along" moment...

Most of the other book reviews/suggestions are for novels which are more individual, I first heard of Michel Chabon's The Yiddish Police Man's Union here, which is different, it's it's own entity and is/was talked about on it's own by people I've read reviews from before so have a bit of a handle on. All I know about this is these are short stories, they fit in the genera of fantasy and David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, people who I know nothing of, think their good. It just seems a bit "so what"?