mutterings and ravings no. 29
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 11:23:03 -0800
Sender: Bibliofind News and Views <NEWS@BIBLIO.BIBLIOFIND.COM>
From: Harry Nudel <nudel-soho@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject: m&r brevity+box-war=
spring has broken out...i'm going to lose 10 pounds...the italian
tourist thinks my $1,500 Jackie book is $15...tira lira la...live bombing from the Yugo...the Euro Slav..no that;s not funny...eh? drivel on...if everyone at ABE just went to the menu 2bled their prices..we'd
be the meat in the reality sandwich..Amazon.com went up 20x this year...hip
hop for Capitalism...the price of real books went up x 2,3,10,20...my guess
is 5 to 10...you;ll notice in 2 or 3 years...booksellers pd less than the
toll takers on NY NJ bridges are the lumpen mass...revolutionary change
like all shock...hey, guys and gals ever been in a car crash, happens in an
instant..but takes time x time to absorb..ANY price you can think of is too cheap..just act as if Booksellers
actually sold SOMETHING of value...Even Ms X from Billings Mont selling her
1 dollar fair copy of Harlequin Romance..now multiply by the wages of lets
say the dif. between what a lawyer or doc makes over a century and the min.
wage pd to the intellectual class..them's that sells writes designs
produces books...at 20x the now going rate books would be cheap...a dillar
a mill. dollarI just bought a box of books, mags. ephemera produced by C.O. camps
in WWII..wonderful Eversons, Stafford and poets, designers who;d i'd never
heard of...real heros..more real heros than
HANKSSPIELBERGRYANOSCARDREAMPROPAGANDA could ever dream of..good fri..the
world is both spirit and flesh..bro, you can't have or sell one without the
other...DRn.
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