Beginner's Question (#5,029,384,772)

mdobson wrote:
> No price on dust jacket is a dead giveaway for a book club edition,
> right?

Yes, in the case of your Bachman book, and for any book published in the
US by a large commercial publisher for distribution to the trade. But
there are exceptions, where an unpriced book can be the publisher's
edition: Books from private, university or specialty presses;
large-format art or other coffe-table books; and textbooks.

In the past, others have mentioned here that some publishers in Canada &
the UK (and perhaps elsewhere) were considering using unpriced jackets
on all of their trade books in order to have more flexibility in making
price changes, but I don't know if that's actually happened.


--Jon Meyers
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"mdobson" <msdobson DeleteThis @sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Sorry, more details:
> -----------------------------
>
> Book is "Thinner" by Richard Bachman
>
> Photo on the DJ is NOT that of Steven King
>
> Black cover with red hand
>
> Published by New American Library, 1984
>
> ISBN 0-453-00468-7
>
> [ISBN in white box on back of the DJ]
>
>
>
> Michael

Book club edition again. Marked about $30 at the local thrift store, who
plonks that price on anything they recognize.

Kris
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Kris Baker wrote:
> "mdobson" wrote
> > Book is "Thinner" by Richard Bachman
> >
> > Photo on the DJ is NOT that of Steven King
> >
> Book club edition again. Marked about $30 at the local thrift store, who
> plonks that price on anything they recognize.


With the zillions of copies of Stephen King books, why are they always
*hot" ? I mean overpriced at thrift stores, charity sales, etc. ?
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Jon Meters wrote:
>
> In the past, others have mentioned here that some publishers in Canada &
> the UK (and perhaps elsewhere) were considering using unpriced jackets
> on all of their trade books in order to have more flexibility in making
> price changes, but I don't know if that's actually happened.
>
>
> --Jon Meyers

The US price is often included as a part of the bar code on the back
cover, but I have seen one case where the bar code differed from the
stated price by a dollar.

David Ames
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