Now *that’s* a lot of Babylon 5

Today jms announced that the B5 scripts he wrote were going to be made available in book form.

All of them.

All 91 Babylon 5 scripts that I wrote are going to be made available
through an independent publishing firm in trade paperback form. We’re
still working out the final details in terms of how to put the scripts
together, but right now the plan is to do 7 scripts per book, each
volume released every two weeks or so, at a cost of about $29 per
volume if ordered in the first week or so it comes online) or $39 per
for those who buy later. That’s four bucks per script if purchased
early, about five per script if published later…which saves fans a
HUGE amount of money.

There will be 14 volumes in all, each again containing 7 scripts AND
newly written introductions and commentaries about each episode that
are thus far averaging about 30 pages per book, telling some of the
behind-the-scenes stories that have never been told before (and some
that have), talking about the writing process, how the arc was created
and maintained, anectodes about cast and crew, what went into the
stories…enough so that at the end, at 30 pages over 14 volumes you
get about 420 pages of new material on the making of B5…a book unto
itself.

Oh yeah, and there are going to be alternate scripts and timelines, never before seen
photos and so forth and so on.

Of course, it’s also going to cost.

Here, if copies are purchased as the script books first
come online, the full set would cost around $420; ifpurchased after
the discount period, we’re talking about $560…which is, again, for
15 volumes counting the free one, amounting to nearly FIVE THOUSAND
SIX HUNDRED PAGES OF MATERIAL.

Wow.