Hi Sharon, Books about lacemaking are generally published in fairly short runs, simply because there are still relatively few people in the general population who make lace (as opposed to people who cook, for example). So the book is released, bought by vendors, and if it is well received, by word of mouth people learn about it and buy it. Once the run is gone, the publisher and author have to decide if a second run is in order. Many times, the answer is no. So people who have bought the book but don't use it can sell it for whatever the market will bear.
Don't be fooled by the prices you see from used book sellers. They offer books at inflated prices and if there is no interest, they lower the price until they get a buyer. Clay Clay Blackwell In dreary, wet, Virginia Sent from my iPad > On Dec 2, 2015, at 2:59 PM, Rick & Sharon Whiteley <rswhite...@shaw.ca> wrote: > > Our club was just offered a largish collection of lace books to buy from an > old lace maker. The current owner had priced them out on EBay and Amazon. > Well, I thought the asking prices were a bit inflated until I checked our > regular suppliers and elsewhere. Turns out that most of these books have > increased anywhere from 100% and up ... in just one year! The cause isn’t > just because of our devalued Canadian dollar either, that realistically > shouldn’t account for more than 20%. What gives? Sharon, on rainy > Vancouver Island - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
