Brett Coster schreef:
> > Behalf Of Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM
> >
> > I am not happy. _Kiln People_ will be published in January 2002, and will
> > probably be hardcover. Add a year till the paperback version
> > comes out, and
> > several more months before the paperback edition will be for sale
> > in Europe,
> > and it will probably be close to XMas 2003 before I will get my copy...
> > :-(
> >
> > The _Illustrated Guide_ will be published Summer 2002, so it will probably
> > be Spring 2004 or something before it appears on the shelves of European
> > bookstores. :-(
> >
> > Before anyone suggests ordering them from Amazon: Nah. With exchange rates
> > and costs for shipping and handling being what they are, ordering
> > on-line is
> > only useful when ordering a pile of books at once. Otherwise, waiting for
> > the books and buying them once they are published here is a lot cheaper
> > (even with book prices being what they are nowadays).
> >
> > Does anyone know if "Forgiveness" will be published in Europe?
>
> Don't you have any bookstores that do their own direct importing? Here in
> Melbourne, I know I'll be able to get my hands on copies of Kiln People and
> the Illustrated Guide within a week or so of the US publication date. Of
> course, I'll have to pay double the US cover price to do so - the Pacific
> Peso being just above the US$0.50 mark.
Yes we do. And once in a while I order books that way. They don't seem too happy
about it and do it rather grudgingly. And depending on which shop assistant is
filling out the order you get lots of comments about how it is inconvenient and
complicated to do. So if I don't really have a good reason to do it, I don't.
> Alternatively, what about a few of you European types getting together to
> place a bulk order when these come out, so that you all spread the Euro
> cost?
It wouldn't work. Shipping parcels within Europe is too expensive. How expensive
it is I found out when some of my Euro friends send me parcels with gifts for
little Tom. A parcel containing T-shirt, trousers, socks and a card cost Bfr.
525 (roughly Hfl 26, $10) to send. ridiculous. Same from Germany. DM 36 (around
Hfl 40, $17) to send a toy *. Since shipping prices are determined by weight,
sending books should be worse. And unfortunatly there is no such thing as 3rd
and 4th class shipping that I know of. :o/
Sonja
*It's Tom's favourite toy at the moment. I never would have thought he'd be able
to play with it already. But he does as soon as he is awake and before he fals
asleep and it keeps him fairly occupied.
