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Post by doug61 on Aug 12, 2023 13:03:46 GMT
Got an Email this morning to say my copy is on the way. Did you get the one with the CDR of rarities and signed by the band? No, I saved the extra few bob, I am buying too many of these "special" edition thingies, I can understand why they do it, but even £20 for a book is really pushing it I think as we have discussed elsewhere I believe. It's a nice sized substantial book and perhaps I am just being miserly but it seem to be about getting the maximum possible out of a loyal but limited readership. May have something to do with just having got my leccy bill in when I ordered it, too.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Aug 13, 2023 6:20:37 GMT
I've got to admit the price tag is putting me off. I probably will snap up a copy as I know I'll enjoy it but, like everything these days, it ain't cheap
I do get it's a labour of love and Paul is probably only covering his costs, or maybe making a small return
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Post by doug61 on Aug 13, 2023 12:14:28 GMT
I've got to admit the price tag is putting me off. I probably will snap up a copy as I know I'll enjoy it but, like everything these days, it ain't cheap I do get it's a labour of love and Paul is probably only covering his costs, or maybe making a small return I think it wold depend if it were being done as "print on demand" or as a limited run and then down to numbers in the run. I would expect a 100% mark up though, but of course it's years of work that have gone into it and again, how many copies can you flog? As with an argument I have always made for lower priced tickets at gigs and football, You'd probably sell a lot more copies if you priced it more competitively, especially given that the target market is of an age that sees £20 as a lot of money compared to younger people who don't blink an eye spending that on a take away pizza. Most books of this sort I think should be going for about the £13 mark, at that price I buy, any dearer and I tend to avoid or stick on a birthday or Xmas list and leave it to fate if anyone is kind enough to buy it. None of this is in any way meant as criticism of Paul, the sheer depth and quality of his Roxy book was astonishing and that is the reason I grabbed a copy of this, it is just a comment on the pricing structures of books on certain esoteric subjects for limited audiences.
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Post by andyloneshark on Aug 15, 2023 15:38:58 GMT
i think, considering Paul is doing this all on his own, it's a limited print run and the cost of getting it printed and bound, £20 is very reasonable. If it was being printed by the million, then it's cost would obviously be less.
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Post by Billy Idle on Aug 16, 2023 6:58:38 GMT
The price doesn 't put me off . I'm ordering my copoy today .
Thanks andy .
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Post by personunknown on Aug 16, 2023 9:54:16 GMT
Twenty quid for a niche subject, small print run is very fair.
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Post by stu77 on Jan 23, 2024 23:18:51 GMT
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Post by andyloneshark on Jan 24, 2024 9:11:21 GMT
Cheers Stu. Good interview with Paul and Noel. Especially the chat about Jill Furmanovsky, Miles Copeland and Step Forward
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Post by stu77 on Feb 27, 2024 2:44:49 GMT
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Post by zeopold on Apr 5, 2024 20:07:55 GMT
'GLC' came into my head randomly today whilst showering, and later on whilst taking my shoes off in the porch it was 'H-Eyes', the flip side of the Ruts' debut single.
Today has been like something out of a new wave version of the 'X Files'
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