Comments on: Another Disappointing Headline https://booksquare.com/another-disappointing-headline/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=another-disappointing-headline Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Wed, 08 Dec 2004 03:07:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: booksquare https://booksquare.com/another-disappointing-headline/#comment-6825 Wed, 08 Dec 2004 03:07:49 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2004/12/06/831/#comment-6825 That’s really too bad — and a bit disheartening. I head the same thing from Jill (who is forever banned from checking the number of used books for sale on Amazon — we are totally practicing “What you don’t know…”

I make it a point to buy used under very strict circumstances (author, very dead; book, very much out of print), and I try to educate others as to why it’s important to buy new. Alas, it’s not easy…

]]> By: daniel olivas https://booksquare.com/another-disappointing-headline/#comment-6747 Tue, 07 Dec 2004 06:27:34 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2004/12/06/831/#comment-6747 arcs for my last two books ended up for sale on the web. this is a pisser. i was able to buy one back but the other sold too fast…and the asking price was about 50% higher than the finished product! i don’t know what the answer is. i just think it’s a slimeball thing to do to the author and the publisher.

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