Julie wrote: >I ran into a copy of Moda de Firenze (the Italian Renaissance costuming book) >at >a Ren Faire this weekend. I was all set to add it to my collection but was >shocked at the price. The last time I looked it was going for about $80 U.S. >\>Yesterday it was priced at $148. > >Has this book really gone up that much in a year or two? >Is there another less costly vendor?
IIRC, what's out there now is a 2nd printing. Publishers seem to feel quite free to jack the price up when something is much more popular than they expected (as I think this was, and this definitely happened with QEWU) and they go into another printing when they didn't originally expect to. (To be fair, this may also have to do with having to gear up the press again, which may have gotten more expensive to run in the meantime, perhaps having to re-create some of the production files if they didn't save them, the increasing price of paper and so forth. It's not *just* the temptation of more profits...) ____________________________________________________________ 0 Chris Laning | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + Davis, California http://paternoster-row.org - http://paternosters.blogspot.com ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
