The marketplace is a weird place to go...
...and I'm not sure what exactly drives it!
I did a search for Watercolor Pencil Magic
just to see what it's going for, now--I wrote it a few years ago, and it went out of print way too fast. Not too long ago, I found some hopeful soul listing it for over $170! (It's not still listed, so who knows if he actually got it...)
And as you can see, it's still going for quite a bit above the original retail price. Supply and demand in action, I guess!
(Just a note--a lot of folks don't realize the author makes nothing on used book/aftermarket sales, unless we're the ones listing the book, of course. So whether they do or don't go for this hefty prices, no income darkens our door ! )
Recently, I discovered 4 copies of the book in a trunk I hadn't looked in for a while...so I've been putting them up on eBay.
At the original retail price.
Yeah, I guess I don't quite get the whole marketplace thing. I just can't bring myself to add to that kind of inflation, times are hard enough! I have one still up on eBay, item # 350122621621--I sold the other two for a LOT more reasonable prices, and I'm keeping the last one for my own copy. (The one on eBay ends tomorrow, if you've been shopping for it!)
This was ironic, by the way! The book went out of print just as I was planning an online class on it. SOoooo, suddenly in a bind...I ended up making a CD with even MORE art on it, and added a chapter that had had to be cut from the book, for space reasons.
Somebody wrote me just this morning to ask WHY it was out of print.
Ah dunno. I wish it weren't.
But the CD is on eBay, too (item #350113926492) and on my website and CafePress stores (links at left, if you want 'em!) for what I think is a reasonable price. At least I know THOSE will remain in print, 'cause I publish them myself.
I'm not gonna get rich, this way, but I can put information into peoples' hands and get people making art!
(Please don't write and tell me I'm an idiot. I've heard that before!)
I did a search for Watercolor Pencil Magic
just to see what it's going for, now--I wrote it a few years ago, and it went out of print way too fast. Not too long ago, I found some hopeful soul listing it for over $170! (It's not still listed, so who knows if he actually got it...)
And as you can see, it's still going for quite a bit above the original retail price. Supply and demand in action, I guess!
(Just a note--a lot of folks don't realize the author makes nothing on used book/aftermarket sales, unless we're the ones listing the book, of course. So whether they do or don't go for this hefty prices, no income darkens our door ! )
Recently, I discovered 4 copies of the book in a trunk I hadn't looked in for a while...so I've been putting them up on eBay.
At the original retail price.
Yeah, I guess I don't quite get the whole marketplace thing. I just can't bring myself to add to that kind of inflation, times are hard enough! I have one still up on eBay, item # 350122621621--I sold the other two for a LOT more reasonable prices, and I'm keeping the last one for my own copy. (The one on eBay ends tomorrow, if you've been shopping for it!)
This was ironic, by the way! The book went out of print just as I was planning an online class on it. SOoooo, suddenly in a bind...I ended up making a CD with even MORE art on it, and added a chapter that had had to be cut from the book, for space reasons.
Somebody wrote me just this morning to ask WHY it was out of print.
Ah dunno. I wish it weren't.
But the CD is on eBay, too (item #350113926492) and on my website and CafePress stores (links at left, if you want 'em!) for what I think is a reasonable price. At least I know THOSE will remain in print, 'cause I publish them myself.
I'm not gonna get rich, this way, but I can put information into peoples' hands and get people making art!
(Please don't write and tell me I'm an idiot. I've heard that before!)