Tor Books has released the cover art for the upcoming ebook release of THE DRAGON REBORN, the third book in the Wheel of Time series. Each month, beginning this past October, Tor will release the next book in the series in a variety of electronic formats. See below for a full list of links to the released books, as well as a schedule of the upcoming releases.

With each eBook, Tor is including brand new artwork for the "cover". A different artist has been selected for each one, giving the art team at Tor a chance to provide us fans with a variety of styles.

This month, the artwork is by Donato Giancola. The ebook will be released on December 15th.

Be sure to read the full feature on this artwork on Tor.com from Irene Gallo, the art director at Tor. Here's a portion of what she had to say about this piece:

Donato is great at, well, just about any kind of picture making, but among them he is particularly good at creating compelling quiet moments that get into the psychology of the characters. With plenty of battle sequences to come (*ahem* Dumai’s Wells *coughcough*) Donato decided to take on a contemplative emblematic moment rather than a literal page from the book.

Wheel of Time eBook News and release schedule

Tor Books plans to re-release each one of the Wheel of Time novels as ebooks according to the schedule below. Each will have new cover art, specially commissioned for the eBook format. Each will feature a different artist.

• The Eye of the World: Buy from Amazon
  
• The Great Hunt: Buy from Amazon
  
• The Dragon Reborn: Tor.com Feature | Buy from Amazon
  
• The Shadow Rising - 01/ 19/10
  
• The Fires of Heaven - 02/16/10
  
• Lord of Chaos - 03/16/10
  
• A Crown of Swords - 04/20/10
  
• The Path of Daggers - 05/18/10
  
• Winter's Heart - 06/22/10
  
• Crossroads of Twilight - 07/20/10
  
• Knife of Dreams - 08/24/10
  
• New Spring - 09/28/10
  
• The Gathering Storm - 11/2/10
  
• From Two Rivers - 11/16/10
  
• To The Blight - 11/16/10
  
• The Hunt Begins - 11/16/10
  
• New Threads in the Pattern- 11/16/10
  

So what do you think of this new image? Leave your comments below. Remember, we'll have a more detailed report on the overall future of the Wheel of Time print-edition covers at a later time.