The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
The Law and novella
g33k:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on May 20, 2022, 05:20:55 PM ---A look at some artwork and a synopsis for The Law at Subterranean Press press. The price made my eyes water.
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https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/91ead2c5-f838-4aa5-9384-01fd8e2614d4
2000 copies of a novella (so, shorter than any prior Dresden novel), at $45 each.
And 26 collectors-editions at $300 per.
And the website states "Ours is the only print edition currently planned."
I don't think Jim Butcher has previously done anything that felt quite so much like a massive "F^@K YOU" to his millions of fans.
Maybe he's "planning to plan" to republish later, in another venue/format... Though that'd be a really mealy-mouthed & weasel-worded thing to do, I for one would appreciate it!
Mira:
Yup.. And it did start a while back, breaking the last novel into two books wasn't saving us any money, as claimed, the math didn't add up. Is it just me or is someone, either the author or the publisher, or both, suffering from under some kind of delusion of grandeur and popularity? I mean we love Dresden Files and Jim, we've also been starved from lack of printed material about our favorite character.. But really? Last I heard Jim wasn't nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. ::) In this economic climate they want to charge us $45.00 for a novella? ??? $300.00 for a collector's signed edition? :o Honestly what makes it so collectable? ??? Does the author provide some of his DNA? For that price we should at least get a free beer with it@##$$! >:(
Arjan:
I assume it will end up in a new collection of short stories sooner or later but it is frustrating to know that it is there but you can not realistically get it.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on May 29, 2022, 10:33:39 AM --- ... breaking the last novel into two books wasn't saving us any money, as claimed, the math didn't add up ...
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I understood that rationalle to be something different. Not an "absolute $ outlay" issue, but that Jim didn't want to be the first "genre fiction" author to put out a novel at the above-$50 pricepoint.
Mira:
--- Quote from: g33k on May 30, 2022, 07:02:44 AM ---I understood that rationalle to be something different. Not an "absolute $ outlay" issue, but that Jim didn't want to be the first "genre fiction" author to put out a novel at the above-$50 pricepoint.
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Yet I doubt that it would have been more than fifty dollars, or even fifty dollars. At least not because of the length of the book, "The Order the Phoenix" is eight hundred and fifty pages and sells for $30.00, it did when it came out and it still does new, I just checked. Inflation hadn't hit when "Peace Talks" and "Battle Ground" came out, and the two together might be close to eight hundred and fifty pages, so one big book shouldn't have cost fifty or over fifty dollars. Now the author does get a significantly higher royalty for a thirty dollar book, and I guess you can double the profit if you can sell two thirty dollar books. That seems to be more of a factor, than wanting to keep the price of a book down for us. Also the way the two books read, one longer book would have been better reading. So it doesn't make any sense, especially the bit about not being the first popular author to demand fifty dollars for his work.. That sounds like fiction to me, especially in the light of the original information you gave us about the new novella. Sounds a lot more like someone is peeing up our backs and calling it rain, because they want to maximize profit while still seeming to be on our side... With the latest information about how they are marketing the new novella, it looks like they have dropped that pretense and are now going for "special and exclusive signed and limited copies." Usually those kinds of offers to readers are given after copies are sold through normal means at "normal" prices. If the demand is high, then the publisher and author go for the "special and exclusive" limited and signed copies for the rabid fan to buy. Apparently now they are just going for the higher prices..
--- Quote ---I don't think Jim Butcher has previously done anything that felt quite so much like a massive "F^@K YOU" to his millions of fans.
Maybe he's "planning to plan" to republish later, in another venue/format... Though that'd be a really mealy-mouthed & weasel-worded thing to do, I for one would appreciate it!
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Actually he has, when he published the last two novels the way he did, you may not want to believe that, but that's where the evidence is heading.. I can accept that like everyone he wants to make money and perhaps needs it, but I wish he or his publishing company wouldn't B.S. us about it. >:(
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