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From: kalash@ucbcad.UUCP
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Subject: Re: re: collector's editions
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Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 13:32:32 EST
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> 
> I'm complaining about $100
> books, and somewhat about Disch's booklets like _Ringtime_ for
> Toothpaste Press...  Opinions?

	There have been (to my knowledge) two limited books that
costmore hten $100, and both are Stephen King books. Most limiteds
are in the range of 40 -> 50.

> 
> This seems to be an effort to
> boost sales of the expensive version by withholding the affordable
> copies, and I consider it a low practice.

	This is rarely (if at all) done. The people who make the limiteds
and the people who make the trades usally are different publishers. The
trade press usally just schedules the book, and the limited press scurries
about trying to get to press and out the door in time.

> The latest Stephen King
> limited edition, THE EYES OF THE DRAGON was just issued (I got mine
> the other day), and it won't be available in a trade edition for 3
> years. Why so long a delay, I don't know.

	King's normal publisher (Viking) doesn't want more than one
King book out any any year, they like his books to be "events", and
they don't want the books conflicting with one another.


			Joe Kalash
			kalash@berkeley
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