$16.95 for a Trade Paperback?!

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$16.95 for a Trade Paperback?!
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Wed, 07-06-2005 - 7:47pm

Guili posted under Turn the Page about a local to her author who had a first book out ... "Jury of One", set at the beach, fortune tellers, murder ... sounded great to me!

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Wed, 07-06-2005 - 8:42pm
As a librarian I buy literally hundreds of books a year and that *is* high for a 172pg paperback. I guess it's not selling well and they're still trying to make money from it. Can you ask your library to buy it? The public library in which I worked would buy any book that a patron requested withing reason. I don't know how common that is, but it's worth a try.
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Wed, 07-06-2005 - 10:10pm

You can get it over on amazon for $11.53.

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Thu, 07-07-2005 - 7:57am
That does seem like a lot for a regular sized paperback, but as Marge suggested I've noticed a lot of larger sized paperbacks lately- the one of Elizabeth Berg's I bought was like that and I spent a lot of time debating on wethere I reallywanted to pay 12.95 for it.

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Thu, 07-07-2005 - 9:59am
I would love to know the difference between Trade paper back and Mass Market paper back. Any idea? Overstock.com always lists them differently and I can usually tell from the cover which one I want, and Mass Market is usually a couple dollars cheaper, but that's all I know. The discounts from the publishers are the same on both editions.

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Thu, 07-07-2005 - 10:34am

That does sound a bit high.

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Thu, 07-07-2005 - 4:36pm

That does seem high.


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Thu, 07-07-2005 - 11:02pm
A trade paperback can refer to any book that is bound with a heavy paper cover that is generally cheaper than a hardcover but more expensive than a regular paperback. When schools buy 30 copies of _To Kill a Mockingbird_, for instance, for a classroom novel, they buy trade paperbacks because they last longer than mass market, but are cheaper than hard covers. As readers, you've probably noticed that books are published on different types of paper and have different bindings. It's one of those things that "they don't make 'em like they used to". Books almost never have sewn bindings anymore and they really did last a long time. It's all about the profit now.
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Fri, 07-08-2005 - 12:09am

Yup, this is right. Bigger and sturdier than the smaller 'pocket novel' type paperbacks, but not hardbound. It is a way of charging more for a 'paperback'. I agree that that is expensive, but I've been paying that for books that I really want. I find them used or at Costco or Amazon for a lot left. I will often buy the hardbound on sale if it's not a lot more and I know I'll be wanting to keep the book in my library. Lots of books I just read and pass along, but some I really want to keep and I buy the better books for that purpose.

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