On Aug 30, 2004, at 0:20, Joy Beeson wrote:
In fiction, second-hand sales are a benefit because people will buy more
stories if they can easily get rid of them after they have read them. For
lace designers, it's all ego-boo -- except in the rare instances when
reading the second-hand book inspires a search for the author's other works,
And then there's me - unique as usual <g> The ego boost certainly played a part, but there was no (and will never be, as long as I'm alive <g>) a second book of the same author to hunt up. When I decided to put together the Two-Part Inventions booklet in the "new! improved!" (ie much-expanded) format, it was mostly from *pique*... :)
The original was on E-bay, and the auction had gone up to more than twice the price the Landhouse Lacers (Norfolk, VA) had charged for their reprint *and* world-wide shipping, while the original had been distributed - free - to the attendees of their Lace Day. The proceeds from the reprint profited the LL; they got several books for their library from the sales. The E-bay auction I saw as profiteering. Since, (IMO) VA has suffered enough from carpet baggers, I was stirred to action... :) Hence booklet 2, which - in its *base price* (ie sans shipping) - matches the *base price* price that booklet 1 reached on E-bay (and, IMO, booklet 2 is nicer, besides being twice the size).
I can't help the terrible droop the US economy has suffered since 2000 (when the original had been reprinted and sent out), which resulted in price increases everywhere (but especially on the postage "front")...
--- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush.
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