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Must say that I fell off my chair with mirth. Especially at the second "fuck off". Made my morning! (Although I do take your point .....)...
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bellinghman commented on
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* SPAM ALERT * Alden Pursifull @110...
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Charlie Stross commented on
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Thanks, Alan. Spam nuked....
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bellinghman commented on
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First I've seen in a while - either the spammers have not been trying, or the moderation team has been very on the ball. (No, wait, there was one a day or two ago where I couldn't decide, but it got moderated out.)...
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Charlie Stross commented on
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Joe: this is your yellow card. You're being aggressive and rude: stop it, or I'll ban you from posting here. Book pricing is highly dependent on the sales channel, the shelf category, and the target market. I know of books that sell gangbusters with a shelf price in the £50-500 range -- not common in general fiction, but then, general fiction is a small subset of the publishing industry as a whole. (And I have, ahem, sold rather large numbers of a novella for $35 -- through a suitable sales channel. The rules that apply to shelf space in Barnes...
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Moderator Alan commented on
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An example of a publisher that sells minority interest work is Colin Smythe - here is the forthcoming publications list. The prices vary, but many go well above the $37 that caused such disbelief. And those books sell. Not many, and that's why they cost so much - you need volume to be able to bring prices down....
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