Books I cant afford to read!

At that price I would want GG’s signature AND N****r’s paw print…….!!!!

Planemike

And I’m sure there are some sellers that could arrange that. 😮

Amazon at £139 (from other sellers).

amazing….. as Baz says, it must be signed by Guy Gibson at that price….:diablo:

At that price I would want GG’s signature AND N****r’s paw print…….!!!!

Planemike

take a look at…

Tony Buttlers secret projects book, Fighters and Bombers 1935-1950 on the WWW,

Midland counties have it at its retail price, Amazon at £139 (from other sellers).

amazing….. as Baz says, it must be signed by Guy Gibson at that price….:diablo:

Looks like there is a business opportunity for somebody with a scanner!:D

I’d like to round out my collection of Putnam series, but the prices for some are just stupid.
Come on…how many Americans are looking for a copy of Miles Aircraft since 1925 to justify a $300 price? Another American dealer wants $389 for their copy. I’d love one just for fun but not at that price.
Considering most U.S. aviation enthuiasts don’t even know about Miles, (I fear most of my countrymen are terribly parochial when it comes to aircraft) I can’t honestly see where those prices comes from.

Amazon sells new copies of Short Aircraft for $35.53. It also lists other dealers selling new copies…one is $195.16, the other is 256.31. If Amazon sells new ones for so little, why would theirs be priced so high?

The Miles book is in short supply and the price is probably a fair reflection of supply and demand. Much cheaper to buy Peter Amos’s recently published excellent book on Miles a/c.

The Short book…………don’t be silly !!!!!! Plenty of them around, I paid £ 20:00 for mine, around the $ 35:00 mark.

Planemike

They are written by a PC to order and are simply generated by a programme he designed,it has never been proven that he has actually sold any of these publications.

I have to be careful what I say, because I do not want to get accused of ‘advertising’, but this is a big beef of mine. We find a lot of our own titles showing on assorted websites that we never have any dealings with at prices that are astronomic and frankly, stupid (or should that be greedy?). I have seen some of our books listed as being ‘rare – out of print’ when I have plenty left – to the point I have been selling them at a discount on e-bay… I have seen others listed as ‘author-signed’ when that particular book was not even completed until after the authors death! – I wonder what they tell the purchaser when they discover there is no signature?

It does occasionally work the other way – one of our more high-end titles was recently spotted on a national-to-the-UK bookshop chains online store as being ‘60% off’ which was kind of funny, because we had never accepted orders from them in the last eight years (this chain stopped ordering books from us when I refused to give them 60% discount, 120 days sale or return and THEN a 90 day invoice they were demanding from us!). I cannot believe they sold any, for they never placed orders with us!

Bear in mind though shipping costs – a US-produced title not printed in the UK is going to rack up costs when sold in the UK that have to be taken into account and often is reflected in the price – and vice-versa for books produced/printed in the UK and sold elsewhere in the world – and because we are operating in a global market, the fluctuating exchange rates also have to be taken into account.

If you do pay over-the-odds prices, well… that’s up to you – if you want the book that bad, then I guess that’s your right. I would say however ‘buyer beware’ at some of these silly prices spotted – and if you know it, contact the publisher first to see if they have any copies in stock!

I would also say query any long-delivery times you may get when you walk into a book department of some of the national chains – we turn around all orders within 2 working days, and we know also that some stores tell customers that ‘oh yes Sir/Madame… we can get you that title, but it will take 20 weeks’ – thats really great to hear in the run-up to Christmas and so you walk out the bookstore thinking bad of the publisher and they get away with not telling you that they cannot get it because they are too greedy. I know that sounds paranoid and crazy, but I walked into a store in Peterborough and asked about one of my own authored books – and got told EXACTLY that by a sales-person behind the desk who clicked way at her computer for some time. My reply is un-repeatable!

Various internet book finding services won’t always (or often) produce fairly priced volumes. Example, at work we sell a book for $14.95, if you do an internet search for it, a couple of used book dealers want almost $200 for it :confused:

Likewise, used book prices on internet sites are crazy….I know it’s not the fault of ebay, Amazon.com or internet search functions like bookfinders…but used book dealers seem to be in a world of their own. It makes me wonder if the prices are generated at random or if they’re really that stupid/greedy.

I’d like to round out my collection of Putnam series, but the prices for some are just stupid.
Come on…how many Americans are looking for a copy of Miles Aircraft since 1925 to justify a $300 price? Another American dealer wants $389 for their copy. I’d love one just for fun but not at that price.
Considering most U.S. aviation enthuiasts don’t even know about Miles, (I fear most of my countrymen are terribly parochial when it comes to aircraft) I can’t honestly see where those prices comes from.

Amazon sells new copies of Short Aircraft for $35.53. It also lists other dealers selling new copies…one is $195.16, the other is 256.31. If Amazon sells new ones for so little, why would theirs be priced so high?

alternatives

have you tried Book depository?

or even better still a good 2nd hand book shop !