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From: "Howard, Jenny" <[log in to unmask]>
> Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new
title on the renowned Translated Texts for Historians series:
> Bede: Commentary on Revelation
> HARDBACK ISBN: 9781846318443, Price: £75.00
> PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781846318450, Price: £18.99
wow.
only £75.00 ($120.00 U.S.) !
and a paperback for a mere £18.99 !
of course, i realize that the LUP had to pay the translator a lot of money for
her work (you *did* pay her, right?), but what are you guys trying to do?
out Mellen Mellen?
but, from Professor Lapidge's endorsement it looks like this might be a decent
bit of scholarship --you'll never catch up with Mellen if you keep publishing
that quality, no matter how outrageously you price your goods.
now let's here the Usual Excuse:
"Well, we publish books that appeal to such a limited audience that we *have*
to price them outrageously so that we will sell even fewer copies than we
would if we sold twice as many at half the price."
"And we'll hold on to the copyright for decades and decades after all the
copies of the first run have sold out because otherwise....[?]"
what next?
"We'll sue you if you say anything critical about our Precious Press" ?
*now* you're approaching full Mellenness.
you will still have to lower the physical quality of your publications,
however, before you loose your Amateur Standing in that league.
c
etc.
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