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Post by Hermes on Mar 24, 2010 16:59:20 GMT -5
I view it as blackmail, personally. These reissues of the books are aimed at people who didn't buy them the first time around, and that's fair enough. But then they include bonus content of some kind which can have no possible reason for existing except to try and force people who already own the product in question to buy it again. I'm a collector, so I'd have bought them again anyway, but it's still darn annoying. Horseradish is something similar, of course. (Another example is Hav, by Jan Morris. This is a reprint of her old book, Last Letters from Hav, together with a sequel (or something: it's a mock travel book, not a conventional novel) called Hav of the Myrmidons. Hav of the Myrmidons isn't published separately, so if you already have the original you have to buy it again).
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Post by Dante on Mar 24, 2010 17:20:28 GMT -5
One thing I've noticed recently is where various popular books have a "deluxe edition" of some sort released a considerable amount of time after the first publication, but with an entirely original new chapter included that contains information which can't be found anywhere else. Both Anthony Horowitz and Christopher Paolini have done this, I think. Incredibly frustrating. Fortunately, the aSoUE style is somewhat immune to some of these gimmicks. The BBRE compensated by actually having quite a lot of new or bonus material for its price.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Mar 24, 2010 18:02:51 GMT -5
It's a good marketing strategy: Dedicated fans will pay equal price (sometimes more) for a book they already own, and consumers who are buying them for the first time do the same except have the bonus of the extra material. Of course, it's quite aggravating for those who bought the book to begin with, but the ones selling them benefit greatly from it.
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Post by cwm on Mar 25, 2010 9:31:51 GMT -5
One thing I've noticed recently is where various popular books have a "deluxe edition" of some sort released a considerable amount of time after the first publication, but with an entirely original new chapter included that contains information which can't be found anywhere else. Both Anthony Horowitz and Christopher Paolini have done this, I think. I think you might be mistaken on Horowitz - the paperback version of Snakehead included a bonus chapter, but that's hardly a deluxe edition and the extra content was placed on his official website.
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Post by thedoctororwell on Mar 25, 2010 14:38:05 GMT -5
The poster that came with The Complete Wreck was folded in four and put between two books of the row. So it's roughly four times as wide as an original american book's cover.
I wish I'll be able to get TBBRE one day. I don't really care much for the boni, though, I'm not the collector. What interestes me is the supplementary chapter, which is actually canon.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Mar 25, 2010 14:54:58 GMT -5
If you mean the chapter that has all the notes, you can read those here.Thank you for describing your poster; that's quite interesting. I don't recall a poster being included or even acknowledged on any of the websites that were selling TCW.
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Post by Dante on Mar 25, 2010 16:57:00 GMT -5
The poster that came with The Complete Wreck was folded in four and put between two books of the row. So it's roughly four times as wide as an original american book's cover. I'll check mine again, between the books this time. ...Nope, nothing. Where did you get your TCW? It might've been another retailer-exclusive bonus, just like this release of the Marvellous Marriage image.
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Post by thedoctororwell on Mar 26, 2010 1:29:15 GMT -5
I bought mine on Amazon.Com. Not much of a choice, since I live in France. Strangely enough, it was a retail sell.
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Post by Dante on Mar 26, 2010 3:16:24 GMT -5
I bought mine on Amazon.Com. Not much of a choice, since I live in France. Strangely enough, it was a retail sell. Hmm. I got mine from Barnes & Noble. That could be it. Took them a while to get it to me, too. Presumably due to enormous incompetence, the first time around they me a box with a receipt... and no TCW. That sort of thing's happened to me a lot with Snicket, come to think of it.
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Post by Dante on Mar 29, 2010 5:56:28 GMT -5
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Post by Dante on Apr 1, 2010 10:12:24 GMT -5
13 Words, written by Lemony Snicket and illustrated by Maira Kalman, now has a cover.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Apr 1, 2010 11:27:06 GMT -5
It's interesting how cheerful this cover looks, considering the Snicket association.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2010 6:29:08 GMT -5
Darth Vader? Kekeke, why censor Snicket's name? XD I was confused for a bit there.
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Post by Tiago James Squalor on Apr 2, 2010 12:44:29 GMT -5
13 Words, written by Lemony Snicket and illustrated by Maira Kalman, now has a cover. It's the Twitter bird! lol Kidding.
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Post by bumblebee on Apr 20, 2010 2:19:28 GMT -5
Does anybody know what that book '13 Words' is about?
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