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Christopher,
Christopher,
I hope you were writing this with your digital tongue firmly in cheek, but I
still don't think that it's fair to compare LUP with the Edwin Mellen Press.
They are simply not in the same ballpark. Besides, OUP and CUP often have an
even bigger gap between hard- and paperback prices of the same book: I
recently bought a copy of the new [Burrow's] edition of Shakespeare's
sonnets. OUP are asking £142.00 for a hardback copy of The Complete Sonnets
and Poems, and £8.99 for the paperback of the same (the hardback costs 15.78
times the paperback; for the Bede Commentary the ratio is 3.95).
Faith Wallis (Professor at McGill University) is a superb Latinist, with
years of experience translating and writing about other works by Bede
(especially his works on computation). Michael Lapidge's endorsement will be
borne out by reviews, I'm sure.
Bill Schipper
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Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 9:06 AM
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Subject: Re: [M-R] TTH - Bede: Commentary on Revelation
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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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