Re: Meanwhile, at PA
Thinking a bit more about Keisha's question, and why it is that PA authors tend to order 100-200 rather than 500-1000 copies of their own books.
Let's take the authors' discounts in PA's latest attempt to induce their authors to buy a few more cases of books:
<BLOCKQUOTE>authors who need
between 25-50 books: 40 pct discount
between 51-100 books: 45 pct discount
between 101-200 books: 50 pct discount
201 or more books: 55 pct discount</BLOCKQUOTE>
Figure a typical $19.95 book:
100 copies: $1,097.25 + $51 S&H, = $1,148.25
200 copies: $1,995.00 + $101 S&H = $2,096.00
Both of those are pretty big bites on ol' Mastercard.
500 copies: $4,488.75 + $251 S&H = $4,739.75
1,000 copies: $8,977.50 + $501 S&H = $9,478.50
That's getting right up into "rugged" territory.
Plus you'd have to find somewhere to store 'em: 1,000 copies of a 250-page, 6x9 paperback comes to around 25 cartons of books. If you're going to spend that much to get something that you're going to have to store in your garage, you ought to get a car instead.