not return after a long absence. Not sure why missing out of print books. Indeed. With the occasion of Christmas I got a little 'speed of the big chain bookstores and talking to booksellers' former colleagues have picked up some catalogs of large publishing houses. Some were as tall as the old testament! They also confirmed to me that about half of the beautiful cover that can be seen in a long time are not available, leave them in the catalog, I believe, for reasons of copyright but in practice are not diposnibili. In
library are only new and classic. Everything in between is a lottery. Other than selling books of the year 60/70, I realize that has been made a lot of steps back! Just authors look at the amount of printed during that period, the stuff of watering, and economic issues extremely accessible to all!
For example, for a friend who had just been struck by a reading of "Memoirs of Hadrian Yourcenar's, I wanted to give Graves the two books that have certainly helped in the drafting work. It is "the divine Claudius" and "I Claudius". Two books often passed from hand to several publishing houses, Mondadori, Bompiani, Tea, it came out no less than twenty different editions in paperback, but they all go out of print after nearly a year. A sobbing really. And it is a couple of volumes that are in high demand. We would expect them ripubblichino in some nice editorial format with special paper to 25 Euro, to make cash with little effort. But because you are printing thousands of copies of books of the presenter of the moment and let out small works already published more than once? Really is for fear of not selling them?
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