Why no hardcovers?

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

 >> Also, if you do check out and "lose" that hardcover GR, you can 
think of it as rescuing it from further wear and tear rather than, you 
know, stealing it.<<

A Persian proverb closes with the sentence:

"The one who gives back a borrowed book should be punished by getting 
cut off both hands."

So ... ;-)


On 26.06.2012 22:23, Matthew Ryan wrote:

> There are others on this list who know a helluva lot more than me 
> about the publishing biz, but my semi-educated guess is that 
> hardcovers are more expensive to produce and have a higher retail 
> price, whereas trade paperbacks are cheaper to both the publisher and 
> the customer and they can sell a lot more. I like those Modern Library 
> hardcovers (there's one for Blood Meridian, if you want at least one 
> hardcover Cormac) but even they have seemed to have switched to trade 
> editions. Also, if you do check out and "lose" that hardcover GR, you 
> can think of it as rescuing it from further wear and tear rather than, 
> you know, stealing it. My two cents for what it's worth.
>
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Jordan Hunnicutt 
> <antipusrises at gmail.com <mailto:antipusrises at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I happened to notice that a couple of titles of Pynchon's library,
>     Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow, and much of Cormac
>     McCarthy's library don't have hardcovers in print among others I'm
>     sure.  Why is this?  These are popular writers, that's why I'm
>     puzzled by this.  I happened to spot a weathered hardcover copy of
>     GR in my local library and I was tempted to check it out and
>     "lose" it.
>
>


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