My out of print book sells used on Amazon for about $100 - it's been as high as $321. It's sold on e-bay for $750... I get none of this money. It seems like most of the places on Amazon are book stores and used book stores - I can imagine someone coming in and trading 5 books (including mine) and getting one free... and then the book store sells the book online for $100!
Or maybe $182.15 - the current asking price for a used copy on Amazon!
AMAZON COPIES:
Amazing! I hope the guy who traded it at the used book store got something nice.
I haven't checked e-bay, yet - but maybe there's a copy there for under $200!
- Bill (still working on the new edition)
Amazon Booksurge, Lulu, and other Print on Demand offerings are actually pretty good nowadays -- though I'd think you'd be able to score a decent sized publishing house!
ReplyDeleteI have two publishers interested at Book Expo - but I have to finish the rewrite first...
ReplyDelete- Bill
Bill;
ReplyDeleteI told you this on Wordplayer when I said I was selling the Citibank stock in my IRA and buying Martell stock.
Damn. That was when Citibank was trading at $52.
Put a line in your next script: "Good action beats bad accounting any day".
$750 on ebay and I thought I paid a lot for my own copy. Looking forward to the revamped second edition.
ReplyDeletetoo bad you didn't hold back a box for yourself and started selling them on Amazon, ebay and Powells... then you could be seeing some of that money
ReplyDeleteThere's one on eBay now -- starting at 10 bucks.
ReplyDeleteStarting from £136 on amazon.co.uk. I'm keeping mine!
ReplyDeleteE-BAY:
ReplyDeleteVery good used condition. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Seller User ID: bwibook
Feedback: 70,973 | 96.4%
$175.38 +$3.49
- Bill
www.authorsonline.co.uk
ReplyDeleteThey look pretty good if you need a self-publisher.