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| Noticed this morning that "The Works" in Barry, South Wales (part of a natiowide chain of remainder book sellers) had half a dozen brand new (still in cellophane packing so could not check that they are first printings though I doubt that there has been any printings after the first) hardback copies of Badger at £9.99 each. Is HarperCollins now selling off excess print runs cheaply?
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| Something seems very wrong with how the series has gone of recent, and theres a gut feeling that there are now too many titles produced over a year, it started with the leathers..many in this forum voiced that the print runs were to high and then to produce one for each standard n/n copy as they came out was not good sense ..not to mention being £250 each throw as well as the cost of the standard edition. If we start for example at the first leather.."woodlands" , this was only obtained through ballot..there were 100 copys only..this became a sought after item, then when some passed hands on ebay many sold over £1000. Some time later Collins anounced that the would produce a leather "Dragonflies" this sold well and the first sold on ebay was in excess of £1000..at first collectors eagerly sought these out. , Then bingo..someone at collins decided to produce a leather for every standard..result = to much expence outlay for the collector + collins stuck with loads of copys that wont sell = collins lowers the price and the print run= the result is that the leather edition is no longer a rare once in a blue moon published book, but one that is no longer desirable and also at this present time a bad investment. In years to come i may be proved wrongly , but the book is too expensive to invest in at this present time. as for these and the standard editions, there now are just to many produced.
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DavidGarnett (26/01/2011)
Noticed this morning that "The Works" in Barry, South Wales (part of a natiowide chain of remainder book sellers) had half a dozen brand new (still in cellophane packing so could not check that they are first printings though I doubt that there has been any printings after the first) hardback copies of Badger at £9.99 each. Is HarperCollins now selling off excess print runs cheaply?
I think you've answered your own question there!
Anyway, I hope you bought them all. That's a no brainer.... (sometimes the bookseller in me just won't lie down!).
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| Just to set the record straight, we don't set the price for print book retailers and we have reduced our NN titles from four to three a year. Alex
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