Books as commodities - What's going on?
So, are remaindered books ever pulped...or is that a fading myth? How aware are authors of the commercial fate of their offspring? Bargain bookstores serve a purpose in making surplus titles more widely available and, occasionally the author will earn a reduced royalty on sales.
But what about those arcane market forces which make it possible for a novel published twenty-five years ago by an unknown writer at a hardback price of £8.95 ($15.89) to have been selling steadily, a few at a time, over several years, for anything between £30.00 ($53.28) and £100.00 ($177.6) without a dime reaching the author?
Can anyone explain?
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Jessica Barksdale Inclan says:
I don't know. 6 of my
I don't know. 6 of my novels are out of print, even though one of them hit (in the used market) 1,000 on amazon this weekend (a friend wrote to tell me).
Clearly, there is still a market for it.
J
Jessica Barksdale Inclan www.jessicabarksdaleinclan.com
Rosy Cole says:
Thanks, J
I only wish I thought it was for the content! Yet it's hard to see why it can command those sort of sums, unsigned at that, whatever the reason, when it sold mainly to libraries in the first instance and is not particularly well produced. It could be the cover artist, of course.
Perhaps I should trumpet the fact that there is a new and much better edition now available as MY MOTHER BIDS ME!