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dancinghorseBrought to my attention to by one of my Lipizzan-group buddies:
Some enterprising soul is selling an Advance Reading Copy of one of my forthcoming books on ebay. Listed as "unread," no less.
My agent is contacting Roc's sales department to request that Mr. Entrepreneur be summarily and permanently removed from Roc's list of ARC recipients.
For those not familiar with how publishing works, ARC's or bound galleys are sent out several months in advance by publishers to reviewers and booksellers and other parties who may be helpful in promoting and selling the book. These ARC's are limited in distribution and are not to be sold, though they often are as collector's items--however, the ethics of the practice dictate that the seller be so kind as to wait until the book has officially been published.
Posting it on ebay for $49.95 (cover price is listed as $16.00), which is 100% clear profit and of which the author sees not one cent, is not the point of the exercise, people. I particularly like the way the photo of the ARC shows prominently and clearly the label, NOT FOR SALE.
Don't you just love the honest, ethical, and considerate nature of our modern society?
Some enterprising soul is selling an Advance Reading Copy of one of my forthcoming books on ebay. Listed as "unread," no less.
My agent is contacting Roc's sales department to request that Mr. Entrepreneur be summarily and permanently removed from Roc's list of ARC recipients.
For those not familiar with how publishing works, ARC's or bound galleys are sent out several months in advance by publishers to reviewers and booksellers and other parties who may be helpful in promoting and selling the book. These ARC's are limited in distribution and are not to be sold, though they often are as collector's items--however, the ethics of the practice dictate that the seller be so kind as to wait until the book has officially been published.
Posting it on ebay for $49.95 (cover price is listed as $16.00), which is 100% clear profit and of which the author sees not one cent, is not the point of the exercise, people. I particularly like the way the photo of the ARC shows prominently and clearly the label, NOT FOR SALE.
Don't you just love the honest, ethical, and considerate nature of our modern society?
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Date: 2004-07-31 10:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-01 03:06 am (UTC)Heh.
Thing is, I do for the most part like having the ARC library around; they are in no few cases my reading copies of the books in question (one doesn't necessarily get both an ARC and a finished copy of any given book), and while using them as such cuts into their theoretical value as collectibles, that's not a major consideration for the majority of the volumes.
And I do donate out some of the material that comes in -- again, typically to convention charity auctions.
It's not a moral thing, really (at least not once the publication window closes). It's just the perennial pack rat's problem of having sufficient space for one's loot.