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I'm in the process of updating/editing Peaches. It's been on Amazon for many years and will probably find a new audience with an updated version.
In the process I noted that hard copies are being offered at $930.
Never did I dream that my little book would command such a price.
We'll see if P. T. Barnum was right.
Jill
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We REALLY need to do this
Put out the hardcopy is something we have been planning to do. Time to do it.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Sounds
... as if you hit the big time, if people are willing to buy a copy for over $900.
-- Daphne Xu
People's Are Willing to Sell
For $900. It remains to be seen if anyone buys it for that price.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
$900
It seems to me that one would only attempt to sell a book for $900 if they already encountered successful sales near that price.
Either that, or they really truly don't want to sell it, but have decided to sell it anyway, if they could somehow get a buyer at that price.
-- Daphne Xu
P.T.Barnum
I hope you weren't referring to his comment about the taste of the American public!
Den Svenska Nattergalen
I swear to god this is true... or so I've been told.
Although not as well-know, and certainly not as talented as her older sister, opera star Jenny Lind's little brother and sometimes understudy Jakob Lind recalled with fond memories about P.T. Barnum's favorite fiction website (Clairvoyant across time and space, yes. Now what was that Swedish word for 'tuck' again?)
Love, Andrea Lena
Please Tell Us When You Finish "Peaches.
It has been just yonks since I read it. At least 10 or perhaps 15 years. I'd like to read it again.
Gwen
When you are finished re-editing...
I would like to purchase it again.
Gwen
Radix Redux
The original 2000 copies of George Harrison's book "I Me Mine" are going for about $5K these days. They first sold in 1980 for £148. That would be £639 or about $1K USD today.
I'd love to see a copy of Peaches hand bound with leather covers and embossed, gold leaf lettering. Printed on acid free paper using archival ink. I suspect that there are custom book binders who would be willing to do that for me. It'd cost about $200 assuming we use a high quality ink jet printer.
Self published books in hard paper covers are priced in the $50 to $90 or so range it seems. It makes me wonder if this was a misplaced decimal point.
Books are odd things. We tend to conflate the object with it's contents. I love Peaches. It is one of my favorite stories in this genera. Still, If that $900 price is real I'd rather see Jill get that money directly than to have some publisher take their pound of flesh first. Authors are often the punching bag in the publishing gymnasium.
Jill; I'm always looking forward to your work. It'll be pleasant to see this re-write. And while I'm unlikely to pick up the hardback copy will find some tangable way to show my gratitude.
Your friend
Crash