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Lots of problems, I have read. Amazon is trying to corner the trade - they
already demand 60% from publishers in return for big sales. Another problem -
traditionally publishers use the profits from bestselling beach reads to
subsidize serious books that are praised and read by serious readers but don't
sell in huge numbers.
With profits plummeting, how can publishers continue this?
A very cloudy future with heavy rains promised.
Best,
Dee
Dee Longenbaugh
The Observatory, ABAA
299 North Franklin Street
Juneau, Alaska, 99801
www.observatorybooks.com
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Since 1977
Alaska specialists
> Lichen on the rock ignores a nearby lightning strike, and so it is
> with cartographers.
B.E.W. Allen
On Oct 6, 2011, at 11:38 PM, Robert Braeken wrote:
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> Maphisters,
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> $ 60 is a big price for a book (which may well be warranted here) ; however,
> the book is also for sale at a big discount :
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> http://www.amazon.com/Prints-Pursuit-Knowledge-Modern-Harvard/dp/0300171072/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1317972410&sr=1-1
>
> So I ordered the book from Amazon. But knowing that there's a price to
> everything : what may this kind of price difference mean for the book market
> /authors / publishing in the long run ?
>
> Robert Braeken
>
> From: Joel Kovarsky <[email protected]>
> To: MapHist <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, October 7, 2011 12:40 AM
> Subject: [MapHist] Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
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> This may be of interest to several on this list:
>
> Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe by Susan Dackerman
> http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300171075
> Aug 22, 2011
> 442 p., 9 1/2 x 12 1/2
> 297 color illus.
> ISBN: 9780300171075
> Paper: $60.00
>
> From the description:
>
> An unusual collaboration among distinguished art historians and historians of
> science, this book demonstrates how printmakers of the Northern Renaissance,
> far from merely illustrating the ideas of others, contributed to scientific
> investigations of their time. Hans Holbein, for instance, worked with
> cosmographers and instrument makers on some of the earliest sundial manuals
> published; Albrecht Dürer produced the first printed maps of the
> constellations, which astronomers copied for over a century...
>
> Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe features
> fascinating reproductions of woodcuts, engravings, and etchings; maps, globe
> gores, and globes; multilayered anatomical "flap" prints; and paper
> scientific instruments used for observation and measurement. Among the
> "do-it-yourself" paper instruments were sundials and astrolabes, and the book
> incorporates a facsimile of globe gores for the reader to cut out and
> assemble.
>
> Joel Kovarsky
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