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Brandon Sanderson / thoughts on hardbacks
« on: October 24, 2007, 08:14:41 AM »
Brandon's essay on hardbacks and papers intrigued me. (For those who haven't seen it, link is at bottom of this post). I must say I hate to buy hardbacks solely for the reason of convenience, since I so often read on the go. (And I can usually wait until the paperback comes out no matter how great the author is.) But I'm honestly shocked by how much more authors make off a hardback, in percentage terms. That kind of sucks actually.
Personally I'd have no problem paying today's hardback prices for something the size of a paperback but constructed like a hardback. I don't understand why no publisher does that. But anyways, now that I know about how the industry works, I'm going to make a point of picking up the hardback versions of new novels by my top five or so authors, even if I eventually only read the paperbacks. I suppose I can justify this by classifying them as collectible copies. (I have a copy of Mistborn 2 on the way that I'll hope someday to get Brandon to sign in person).
http://www.brandonsanderson.com/article.php?id=38
Personally I'd have no problem paying today's hardback prices for something the size of a paperback but constructed like a hardback. I don't understand why no publisher does that. But anyways, now that I know about how the industry works, I'm going to make a point of picking up the hardback versions of new novels by my top five or so authors, even if I eventually only read the paperbacks. I suppose I can justify this by classifying them as collectible copies. (I have a copy of Mistborn 2 on the way that I'll hope someday to get Brandon to sign in person).
http://www.brandonsanderson.com/article.php?id=38