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Post by cwm3 on Apr 20, 2006 11:20:52 GMT -5
According to Amazon.co.uk, TUA is out of print. I'm out of the loop as well as out of print, so can anyone update me on why this would happen when all the other books are still being published?
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Post by Dante on Apr 20, 2006 11:31:29 GMT -5
I'd heard that the U.A. was out of print, although I forget where. I think it was in a review on Amazon, actually, although I forget which. The U.A. is pretty old, and as a supplement, maybe it doesn't command the same importance from publishers than it once did? Still sucks, though.
...They'd better not bring out a new version with a shiny new cover and additional material. I'd buy it, but I'd hate myself and Handler and HarperCollins/Egmont for making me.
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Post by 1fanbaudelaire on Apr 20, 2006 11:36:14 GMT -5
The cover for the U.K edition was different anyway so if it is the American one out of print then, meh. It's not really one of the most important things to have out especially as it only goes upto (I think) the 8th book.
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Post by Dante on Apr 20, 2006 11:43:44 GMT -5
In reality, the U.A.'s contents have implications for the 11th book (it explains who cut down so many telegraph poles) and quite possibly even further.
Edit: Also, the U.K. cover was ugly. If they're going to make a cheap new rip-off edition with a cool cover, we'd better be able to get it here, so I can pretend that the previous edition never existed. Despite the fact that it'll still be on my shelf and I'll see it all the time.
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Post by cwm3 on Apr 20, 2006 11:46:56 GMT -5
What was the difference between the UK and US versions?
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Post by Dante on Apr 20, 2006 12:03:18 GMT -5
Edit: WARNING: There is little I am more comfortable with than ranting about how poorly done-by the British were when it comes to the U.A. If you've heard me whine about this before, you can skip this post as there's nothing new in it. The U.K. cover was ugly and folded out in the middle and had some lame paper seal around it (I've seen something similar on recent editions of Chasing Vermeer). The U.S. edition had a neat dustjacket which looked like a paper-wrapping and was double-sided, with the other side having the parody cover The Pony Party!, with the actual cover beneath the dustjacket being some incredibly cool photograph which I'm pretty sure I didn't make up. Uh, don't know about the back covers, but ours had Lemony's obituary with a note in the corner saying "This article is full of errors... Most importantly, I AM NOT DEAD! -L.S." Neat U.S. cover which ties in with the introduction: ![](http://a1204.g.akamai.net/7/1204/1401/03110611011/images.barnesandnoble.com/images/7070000/7076451.jpg) Beautiful U.S. cover beneath the dustjacket (I uploaded this from your Photobucket onto mine, Antenora, I hope you don't mind): ![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v497/FFWF/LSUA.jpg) Hideous cheaply done in five minutes U.K. cover which needs to be burnt: ![](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/1405200634.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg) Now, as we can all see, if either of them needs reprinting with a shiny, cool new cover, it is the U.K. edition - so hideous that the dread gorgon Medusa herself could not gaze at it without being turned into a pillar of salt, to mix my mythologies a little. Or, they could reprint the U.S. edition with the same cover, and reprint the U.K. edition with everything just taken from the U.S. edition. That way, nobody loses.
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Post by Antenora on Apr 20, 2006 12:07:35 GMT -5
It's okay that you used the image I uploaded, and I'm glad my scan was useful. And just confirming, the US back cover does have the same newspaper article thing.
As for the UA being out of print, I haven't seen a hardcover edition in stores for ages, though I think I saw a few paperback ones(which look like the first cover image in Dante's post, and might or might not have the article on the back cover). So if it's in fact out of print, it seems like only the hardcover edition is.
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Post by cwm3 on Apr 20, 2006 12:18:07 GMT -5
...So on the other side of the dustjacket - the side you wouldn't be able to see whilst it was on the book - you had the cover of the pony party, right?
Bleh, I never knew that TUA was different between the US and UK. Any reason?
I thought the folding-out thing was quite cool, even if it did make it a sucker to read.
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Post by Dante on Apr 20, 2006 12:24:46 GMT -5
Bleh, I never knew that TUA was different between the US and UK. Any reason? Probably because Egmont was too cheap. You can tell from the way any kid with MS Paint could have thrown together our cover in five minutes. Alternatively, Egmont hates the series and just wants to hurt the people who love it, but this was less illegal than breaking into our homes and murdering us with an axe.
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Post by cwm3 on Apr 20, 2006 12:32:48 GMT -5
But I really don't see why they couldn't just use the same picture as the US version...
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Post by Dante on Apr 20, 2006 12:42:19 GMT -5
But I really don't see why they couldn't just use the same picture as the US version... Exactly. There is no reason. It's either because they're skinflints (or some copyright technicality, which likely comes down to the same thing) or because they actually dislike the book. Or they thought that their own interpretation would be more in-keeping with the series, and the nature of the book. Idiots. I'll never forgive them. There can be no redemption for the sin of ruining a good book. Edit: You know, I'd actually have preferred them not to print it. I'd have had to order the U.S. edition from America and pay exorbitant shipping costs, but not only would I have the book, I'd have a decent cover.
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Post by cwm3 on Apr 20, 2006 12:53:48 GMT -5
Maybe their editor frequently changes, and when they were publishing the covers that were different to the US, they had an editor that hated the US!
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Post by lauren on Apr 20, 2006 21:13:52 GMT -5
I haven't seen a hardcover of the U.A in ages either, only the paperbacks. But I don't really mind wether it's going out of print, I mean now it's like limited edition only a handful of people (well maybe a little more) in the world will have U.A hardcover.
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Post by Alfred is Present on Apr 21, 2006 17:24:22 GMT -5
Can somebody upload a Pony Party picture? A clear and large one?
Thank you for that.
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Post by Antenora on Apr 21, 2006 17:33:04 GMT -5
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