However the publishers produce facsimiles not to make money. The facsimiles
make their OTHER books look trustworthy and sellable. In other words the
facsimiles are promotional material to a large degree.
RT
You do have a way with words, well said !!!
Michael Thames
Luthier
www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: falce and unperfect
> > but the distribution
> > scheme in place is comprised of the publisher>main
distributor>subsidiary
> > distributors>dealers. They all get a cut.
> >
> > The cost per copy is $32.- Applying the rule, the list price should be
> > $224. As you can tell from my on line catalogue, the suggested list
price
> > for this book is $98.- In my estimation then, there was no way I could
sell
> > the book at all if the price was over the watershed number of a $100.-
> My experience with distributors and dealers is that they add 1/3 of their
> cost to the price and pass it onto the next level.
> So a "$32 MO book" would be $44 at the first distributor, and $60 at the
> HYPOTHETICAL second distributor, $80 for the end user, but only if the
> second distributor ever existed.
> So an MO book that costs $100 at the dealer- costs $67 at Theodor Presser,
> i.e. MO got $45 for it- and made a $15 profit.
> If the MO cost is indeed authentic (the man's tongue in notably forked
> [allow me to refrain from further biological considerations]) then his
take
> home pay is not insignificant (his rule of thumb of "7 times the cost" is
> pure fantasy).
> However the publishers produce facsimiles not to make money. The
facsimiles
> make their OTHER books look trustworthy and sellable. In other words the
> facsimiles are promotional material to a large degree.
> RT
>
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> http://polyhymnion.org
>
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