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!!!SPOILERS!!! PEACE TALKS !!!SPOILERS!!!
Second Aristh:
--- Quote from: Mira on July 18, 2020, 07:54:17 PM ---The cost of publishing really must have gone up because Cold Days was over five hundred pages and the cover price was the same as Peace Talks approx $28.00. Skin Game was four hundred and fifty pages, cover price cost roughly the same as Peace Talks $29.00.. I bought a Diana Gabaldon book from the Outlander series, over 800 pages for $35.00.. If Battle Ground four hundred and fifty pages for the cover price of $28.00, the total for the two books is $56.00! Not to mention shipping, taxes, etc... So my friends which would have served us better? One longer more satisfying book that is a little more expensive or two shorter ones that in the long run we are paying more money for and are less satisfied?
Also since a lot of us purchase the book from Amazon or Kindle, we never pay the full price anyway..
When they were done discounting Peace Talks I think I was charged around $14.00 more or less, and roughly the same for Battle Ground.. The only way you pay full price is if you buy it from Barns and Noble or another bookstore, but if you belong to one of their clubs you also pay less.
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Bottom line, if the machine your publisher has to make hardbacks can only handle a 600 page book, it's gonna cost a lot more to make a 750 page book. They either have to buy a bigger machine or pay someone else to print it. A $50 price tag is enough sticker shock to scare away a lot of readers that aren't as invested.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Second Aristh on July 18, 2020, 08:49:40 PM ---Bottom line, if the machine your publisher has to make hardbacks can only handle a 600 page book, it's gonna cost a lot more to make a 750 page book. They either have to buy a bigger machine or pay someone else to print it. A $50 price tag is enough sticker shock to scare away a lot of readers that aren't as invested.
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ACE Books have been around a long time, it isn't like they are in business with a wee little printing press than cannot handle a seven hundred page book! As I said I seriously doubt that it would cost fifty dollars at the end of the day especially if you bought it through Amazon.. However doing it their way if one pays the cover price you are paying well over fifty dollars for two books! Someone is peeing up our backs and calling it rain..
I might add that Jim is a best selling author, you'd think they'd cut him some slack.. The first book in his Cinder Spire series is almost 800 pages long yet Amazon is selling it for around $14.00! There has been a name change but the publishing company is basically the same.
magnuskn:
It didn't really make much sense to me, either, but we gotta take Jim at his word, I'd say.
Mira:
--- Quote from: magnuskn on July 20, 2020, 11:40:53 AM ---It didn't really make much sense to me, either, but we gotta take Jim at his word, I'd say.
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We do, there isn't anything we can do about it.. However we don't have to like it..
Runninraven:
--- Quote from: magnuskn on July 18, 2020, 12:35:36 PM ---- There were multiple moments where I went "Aaaaah, just stop and talk to the people, Harry!" Ivy, Sarissa, Fix. I really wanted those conversations to happen. And I am quite unhappy that the Merlin hasn't shown up, I really wanted that conversation between Harry and him.
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It bugged me so, so much that Harry never made an attempt to ask Bob the Skull about the Conjuritis. Just took Butters' suggestion and never made any real inquiries to someone that knows magical maladies.
Loved the book, though. Even despite the incompleteness. And when Maggie told Harry that Michael thinks he is one of the best people he knows. Yeah...got a little dusty in the room.
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