Klarinet Archive - Posting 000452.txt from 2004/11

From: "Erik Tkal" <bbtkal@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Opus Ultimum
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:01:54 -0500

Effendi,

Ineresting, is that why the hardcover says 1-2 months? More glue to lick =
and sewing to be done for the binding? Or more likely a hardcopy =
printing isn't done until paperback sales are determined in order to =
judge the batch size? Maybe if you wrote more tawdry stuff you'd go =
straight to hardcover and force people to wait for the paperback until =
the hardcover sales start to decline.

Erik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dnleeson
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 7:24 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Opus Ultimum
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> Most book companies use print-on-demand as a way of life. They
> can no longer afford to print 10,000 copies and hope that it will
> sell. And if it does not, they have to eat those copies. So now
> hardly any copies are printed. Almost every publisher in America
> works that way now.
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> In the age of on line ordering, you request a copy on line, it is
> ordered from any of a dozen places that are prepared to print one
> copy of the book, and that is sent out to you in about 3-5 days.
> A book ordered on Amazon.UK, gets printed in Nashville and is on
> a place before you can turn around.
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> Barnes & Noble will stock a copy or two for convenience, but
> rarely more than that number unless it is a crazy best-seller.
> Publishing is very much a different world than it was as little
> as five years ago.
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> Dan Leeson
> DNLeeson@-----.net
>=20

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