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« Reply #15 on: November 07, 2007, 07:20:54 PM »
I bought it in Paperback
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« Reply #16 on: November 07, 2007, 09:39:30 PM »
well you know at any rate, a price change has nothing to do with him anyways.  Nobody said anything defending him, we merely commented on the fact that 8 pounds is still very cheap for a hardcover book

Quote from: teknoTom on November 07, 2007, 06:09:15 PM
Lol everyone's defending AH  grin

I'll just get it from the library and then buy it in paperback...
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« Reply #17 on: November 08, 2007, 04:38:50 PM »
I dont know if you have it in the US  or anywer else -i live in england- but the Scholastic school Book club is selling the book in hardback for only 4.99
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« Reply #18 on: November 13, 2007, 03:56:42 AM »
Quote from: teknoTom on November 04, 2007, 10:35:08 PM
Thats the point, why have it in hardback? For an extra 5p in manufacturing costs, a £6 price increase is slapped on them.

To be fair, it's not really a 5p manufacturing cost. It's more like a 30p increase, which is quite a lot. A rule of thumb is that books are priced at about ten times what they cost to make, so if it costs 90p to make a hardback it will probably get sold for ?8.99. You will almost never have to pay the full retail price for a popular author like AH, though - the shops will sell copies at a big discount. Nobody had to pay ?18 for the last HArry Potter book, for example.

In the UK, Amazon has cut the price of Snakehead in hardback from ?12.99 to ?6.49. That means that they are selling it for 50p less than the full retail price of the paperback of Ark Angel, so it looks like a pretty good deal from here.
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« Reply #19 on: November 14, 2007, 02:01:24 AM »
Quote from: Rainbowstar on November 07, 2007, 09:39:30 PM
well you know at any rate, a price change has nothing to do with him anyways.  Nobody said anything defending him, we merely commented on the fact that 8 pounds is still very cheap for a hardcover book

Quote from: teknoTom on November 07, 2007, 06:09:15 PM
Lol everyone's defending AH  grin

I'll just get it from the library and then buy it in paperback...

RS is right. I wish we got it in hardcover, but we only got it released as the floppy paperback.
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« Reply #20 on: November 19, 2007, 06:51:57 PM »
It's shame that I bought it for ?12.99 at Waterstones. I was so desperate to get it I bought it straight away.
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« Reply #21 on: December 18, 2007, 10:58:01 PM »
Lol I read it from my School library. Fantastic book, well done AH. Apparently there was a waiting list down to the floor...  cheesy
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« Reply #22 on: January 27, 2008, 07:19:30 PM »
I am also annoyed. Apart from the higher price (yes, ?8 isnt a lot but if the paper back was released it would have got similar discounts so would be even cheaper).

This is also the second change in design since the series started. I have Stormbreaker and Point Blanc in one style, the others in a different style and now Snakehead in Hardback (which also doesn't fit in my bookcase with the others).

Whats wrong with sticking with one style???

(P.S. I know this isn't AH fault its the publishers)
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« Reply #23 on: January 28, 2008, 05:12:23 PM »
i agree with you there, it is stupid how many times they change the style, maybe they're just not sure? that's a lousy excuse for a professional publisher but maybe? i have them all in one style and snakehead in hardback, but i think the style with a colour, then a logo in silver looks very good, though in snakehead they have the snake in green because of course the background is silver, which i think spoils it a little bit.
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« Reply #24 on: March 16, 2008, 11:39:05 PM »
me too...I lilke hardcovers, but I'll rather get paperback...(isn't rich)
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« Reply #25 on: March 23, 2008, 10:09:26 PM »
hey at least you dont have to wait so long for it to come out
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« Reply #26 on: April 19, 2008, 12:13:42 PM »
now in asda in the UK its gone to ?3.86 or something like that for the paperback  i was really   shocked
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« Reply #27 on: April 21, 2008, 01:53:50 AM »
well at least you get it first
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« Reply #28 on: April 26, 2008, 03:14:19 PM »
What would you expect. All hardbacks are mor expensive than paperback.
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