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What the f---?
I'm writing a blurb for the second edition of the Pocket Essential Philip K Dick and eventually remembered I could paste it in from Amazon. Whilst there I notice the book is finally out of print, but is available from dealers from £9.20. This is from Cold Tonnage, a dealer I trust, but bear in mind a) this is new and b) it retailed for £3.99. You could pay £18.84. Also new. No, that's silly money.
Try second hand then. Used, very good. £42.24. Would have to be Fucking Very good. But it doesn't stop there.
£68.23 Used - Good. Not Very Good or As New. This is a paperback. 96 pages. No colour pictures. First six pages are apparatus - title, contents, copyright. Three pages at the end blank or adverts for other books. 87 pages. That's nearly 80p a page. But that's cheap.
Very cheap.
Imagine paying £324.99 for it.
Jaw drops.
That's around a penny a word. (And some of those are misspelt.) I doubt it's even a signed copy, as if that would add to the value. That's from adciezl.
Now, I have a pile of spare copies somewhere. What am I bid?
Try second hand then. Used, very good. £42.24. Would have to be Fucking Very good. But it doesn't stop there.
£68.23 Used - Good. Not Very Good or As New. This is a paperback. 96 pages. No colour pictures. First six pages are apparatus - title, contents, copyright. Three pages at the end blank or adverts for other books. 87 pages. That's nearly 80p a page. But that's cheap.
Very cheap.
Imagine paying £324.99 for it.
Jaw drops.
That's around a penny a word. (And some of those are misspelt.) I doubt it's even a signed copy, as if that would add to the value. That's from adciezl.
Now, I have a pile of spare copies somewhere. What am I bid?
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Not a lot
Well, that's not entirely true.
I think I worked out that I get summat like 40p from each copy sold, and I got a £500 advance against royalties. These earned out, and I've had cheques for extra amounts in, um 03, 04, 05. I could work it out from my tax returns, but I guess I've earned around £2000. Less than probably. Assuming none of these are remaindered copies, I will have had 40p from each of them.
(From the reports of where these have been spotted, I find the print run of a couple of thousand to be, um, an approximation.)
I hasten to add, I'm not a person who believes that copyright is eternity plus seventy-five years, or that I have to have a cut of every resale, but really. I know I undersell myself, but. I can't imagine anyone paying out three hundred quid.
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Re: Not a lot
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Cold Tonnage calls it "Collectible". H'mmm.
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A dealer who also credits you as author of Reiffen's Choice (see catalogue item 19467).
---Mark
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Boggle.