Eeek! It's 95 quid for a 1st edition signed Eyre Affair already!
Maybe I won't bother, after all.



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Do something pretty while you can...

it's exactly opposite here in the States...we get the hardcover first...and usually about a year later, depending on the popularity of the book, the paperback will come out.

And I don't know about there, but the price difference between hardcover and paperback is significant. Depending on the publisher and popularity, hardcovers are usually between $17-30ish (most of Jasper's are $25) and paperbacks go for $7-$25 (Jasper's ONE goes for $17)

The hardback/paperback thing is usually like that here, too - Jasper's books are very unusual in this (and other) respects!



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Ya, Dave, the prices on Ebay are insane, aren't they? My hubby got my first edition signed UK TEA for me for xmas for about $95 US. And that's actually pretty @#$%&. I have watched lots of auctions of the same thing go for $140 or more. So he lucked out, getting it when he did. The only thing is that it didnt' come with a post card, but I can live without that, as Jasper gave me plenty when I met him.

I've been salivating over the proof copies of WOLP. I still can't believe people are willing to sell their copies. They obviously don't understand what they have! (or they do and don't have any sentimentality about it and are just in it for the money! I have to say, that's a little disheartening, actually!)

In re people trading their proofs for filthy lucre;

"The follies of mankind are innumerable, and time adds hourly to the heap."

- Dr. Johnson



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

Good grief! I only have one copy of each book so far (UK paperback versions), and had been wondering whether getting the newly "upgraded" edition of TEA as well would be overdoing it...

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I've only just got a copy of TEA, let alone multiple copies. It's still nice and shiny new with that new book smell.

why are people so quick to condemn other selling their proofs? publishers send proofs to bookshops and journalists for review purposes etc, if you don't want the book, and you think it is worth something, you might as well try and sell them.

i like my proofs and i won't sell them. But i don't condemn the others, besides, if i got repeated proofs and I didn't know anyone who would want them I wouldn't have a problem.

*gets ready for backlash*


and also, if you knew what people earn working in bookshops you'd be more understanding.



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okay, point taken...it still breaks my heart that someone would sell such gems.

except it's the only way some of us get them



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actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

at least on ebay it's people selling their own copies, i find it much worse record shops selling their promos for inflated prices.

At least bookshops don't sell promos.

that's very true. I, myself, must rely on these folks selling their copies in order for me to own one myself. I guess I shouldn't look on them too unkindly. Just wish they weren't so blooming expensive!

the demand sets the price, if noone bit for the books at that price, the sellers would be forced to bring it down.

and kids proofs are the worst, everyone is thinking they will discover the new J K Rowling

Dear me, why are marketing types so unoriginal? They always want to discover the 'New' copy of whatever-was-a-hit-last-week .... never anything actually 'new'.

Sometimes you wonder how a race as bone idle as humans ever managed to evolve at all.



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£95 for a signed first edition! Wow, my girlfriend is a very lucky girl (in more ways than one obviously ;). I got mine signed and gave it to her (yay me), obviously I ordered a new copy well beforehand to make sure I wouldn't be without.
Oh, btw there's a first edition on the shelf in the WH Smiths in Cheltenham (the big one on the high street), although, looking at the price, it would be worth my while traveling back there, then to Swindon and getting it signed, I'd still make a profit, hmmm............



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Just taken delivery of first edition of LIGB - signed with postcard - only £26 which I thought was pretty good going. Pre-ordered signed WOLP to go with signed proof of WOLP and then will have to purchase additional copy of WOLP to read as the others will look nice on my 'do not touch on pain of death' bookshelf.

Still think it's bad flogging the signed proofs of WOLP (only 50 issued) on ebay - plain proofs, okay but not the signed ones - that's unfair to those who didn't get one.