Today I found a copy of Nemesis Train in a bargain bin at a bookshop in Sydney—and purchased it for the princely sum of $2.
It's a kind of sad moment in the life of a book. But one can mourn the loss or celebrate the journey. (And one consolation was the presence of quite a number of other good books on the bargain tables.)
For the reader or potential reader, such "aggressive discounting" also offers the chance of a good bargain just in time for Christmas. Of course, it is the same book retailing in the same bookshop for $17.95 just a year ago.
There's always a chance an editor from a big-time publisher will find it on a bargain table and rediscover and re-publish or perhaps it will become an underground hit, developing a devoted cult following. Maybe I shouldn't have purchased and left it there for the chance of such a discovery.
P.S. Given that my book royalties for three book currently in print this year totalled $2.08, deducting my $2 investment today, leaves me with 8 cents with which to celebrate the "end" of Nemesis Train. Long live the Train!
2 comments:
Happy to pay $3 for the copy you bought for $2, given that you will dedicate that book in a fashion fitting for the 'end of the train'!!
On the other hand Nathan, finding the book for $2 closes this chapter for you so that you may start working on the new journey!! And since royalties are not even paying for a hot drink, happy to give you $5 dollars for today's book!
What if you 'auction' the title of your next book?!!! I have several!!! LOL
We wait in anticipation for your next volume!
Your Latin Brother!
Long Live the James White Resistance Movement!
Awww ... sad moment. Do you know the poem "The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered"? Not so funny when it's your own book but it happens to most of us in the real world of publishing (as opposed to the dream world where you hit it big with your first novel, become a bestseller, get a movie deal ... yeah).
I am looking for another novel from you!!
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