[lojban-beginners] Re: misaligned words in the LRG

["Luke Bergen" <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

well that's a relief.  I like to have a hard copy of a book that I'm reading and I was not looking forward to shelling out $200

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org> wrote:

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:53:47PM -0500, Luke Bergen wrote:

> Also, why when I search for the CLL book on amazon do I only get
> http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Lojban-Language-John-Cowan/dp/0966028309/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225828326&sr=8-1for

> almost $200?!  Is amazon just jacking up the price for some reason [...]

These are the same books.

What happened is that some years ago, Amazon decided that it would no longer deal with small-time publishers, such as us. So, for a long time it was completely unavailable from Amazon.

Since then, Amazon has started a program in which private persons and companies can offer used books for sale mediated by Amazon. These sellers are, as you have seen, charging exorbitant prices. Perhaps in the assumption that it's out of print. Which it's not; the LLG still has plenty of copies left.

The LLG is currently discussing how to get a better presence on Amazon (perhaps by distributing CLLs to members who can then sell them on Amazon). We are also discussing ways to get shorter turn-around times in order fullfilment.

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