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a match made in heaven.
10.07.2006
10.04.2006
Book Purses
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I've sold all those books at one time or another.
And lemme tell ya, $110 is RIDICULOUS.
The books came from a yard sale or the Goodwill for a few cents, the rest of the purse probably cost ten bucks and once you got the prototype dialed in the manufacturing process would be easy. A pal of mine made similar purses for her boutique and charged $40. But retail is about perception of value as much as actual value, so god bless them for squeezing every last drop of juice out of their product.
I like the concept, but being a book person I can't get excited about the chosen covers. Even if you're limiting yourself to books you can get basically for free, there are much better options, graphically speaking.
I say spend a little more getting a really cool book, then charge $200.
I've sold all those books at one time or another.
And lemme tell ya, $110 is RIDICULOUS.
The books came from a yard sale or the Goodwill for a few cents, the rest of the purse probably cost ten bucks and once you got the prototype dialed in the manufacturing process would be easy. A pal of mine made similar purses for her boutique and charged $40. But retail is about perception of value as much as actual value, so god bless them for squeezing every last drop of juice out of their product.
I like the concept, but being a book person I can't get excited about the chosen covers. Even if you're limiting yourself to books you can get basically for free, there are much better options, graphically speaking.
I say spend a little more getting a really cool book, then charge $200.
Top Ten Wallets for Geeks
good times, good times.
This one seems to be whispering Ivan's name low, in a gutteral German accent:
This one seems to be whispering Ivan's name low, in a gutteral German accent:
10.03.2006
On the Road via Google
Here's a cool Google map of the protagonists journey in the beat classic On the Road.
(courtesy Litourati)
Pretty neat, even though I've never read the book.
Any opinions on it out there in cyberland?
(courtesy Litourati)
Pretty neat, even though I've never read the book.
Any opinions on it out there in cyberland?
10.02.2006
Books: whiny complaint
Roy Jensen is a fantastic remainder company- they consistently stock the best art, photography and architecture remainders, elite titles you won't find slumming at the sale racks at Borders or Barnes & Noble with all the crummy 'made remainders' and genre fiction overruns.
but they do two things that drive me crazy.
They don't mark the box with the invoice.
Extremely annoying when you're receiving a big order.
They don't alphabetize the invoice.
Which makes checking in the books a big pain in the ass.
Are they still using a Univac at Roy Jensen HQ?
Bonus Book Trivia Footnote
In the book business a remainder is an unsold copy of a commercial title that has been sold off by the publisher at a steep discount. In short, a 'real' book that failed in the marketplace and has been given up on by the publisher.
In the used book business there is no stigma attached to a remaindered title- some of them sell fantastically well. We bought several cases of this title as a remainder with a suggested retail of $14.95, sold enough of them in-store at $19.95 to cover the cost and sat on the rest for a while. When the book ended up being as good as we thought it was, we sold the rest on the net for $30.00.
a 'made remainder' is a book published specifically for the 'sale table' market. There was never an original edition, the book was just put together & printed cheaply so it can make the publisher a good profit selling at $4.98 or $7.98 or whatever. I don't buy them over the counter and we don't buy them from remainder companies. Our house term for most of them is "a non-book book", meaning it looks like a book if you flip through it and give it a cursory inspection, but there's not really anything holding it together. There's no meat on its bones....of course, because in book publishing as in cooking meat is expensive.
Made remainders are fluff tarted up to resemble something better, which is why we steer clear of them.
but they do two things that drive me crazy.
They don't mark the box with the invoice.
Extremely annoying when you're receiving a big order.
They don't alphabetize the invoice.
Which makes checking in the books a big pain in the ass.
Are they still using a Univac at Roy Jensen HQ?
Bonus Book Trivia Footnote
In the book business a remainder is an unsold copy of a commercial title that has been sold off by the publisher at a steep discount. In short, a 'real' book that failed in the marketplace and has been given up on by the publisher.
In the used book business there is no stigma attached to a remaindered title- some of them sell fantastically well. We bought several cases of this title as a remainder with a suggested retail of $14.95, sold enough of them in-store at $19.95 to cover the cost and sat on the rest for a while. When the book ended up being as good as we thought it was, we sold the rest on the net for $30.00.
a 'made remainder' is a book published specifically for the 'sale table' market. There was never an original edition, the book was just put together & printed cheaply so it can make the publisher a good profit selling at $4.98 or $7.98 or whatever. I don't buy them over the counter and we don't buy them from remainder companies. Our house term for most of them is "a non-book book", meaning it looks like a book if you flip through it and give it a cursory inspection, but there's not really anything holding it together. There's no meat on its bones....of course, because in book publishing as in cooking meat is expensive.
Made remainders are fluff tarted up to resemble something better, which is why we steer clear of them.
10.01.2006
books: the worst 'about the author' bio I've seen in a long, long time
from The Secret Symbols of the Dollar Bill:
Oh, dear.
DAVID OVASON teaches astrology, and has studied the life and teachings of Nostradamus for more than 40 years.
Oh, dear.
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