Or, as with hundreds of thousands of other books on Amazon, you can click through to the “used” section and buy the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction for a penny.ĭespite the naysaying about the death of publishing, the industry’s most vital numbers - sales and revenue - aren’t actually all that gloomy. Take Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit From the Goon Squad”: You can buy a new hardcover or paperback copy for $18.82 or $9.19, from Amazon itself, or download the Kindle version for $8.56. They’re all on Amazon, priced incredibly low, and sold by third-party booksellers nobody has ever heard of.īetter-known titles with more robust print circulation quickly obey the seesaw of supply and demand after time, their prices can sink even lower, because of the increased number of copies floating around. Westlake and Lawrence Block titles are easier than ever to find online, along with pretty much every other book published in the last century. These titles can be hard to find many of them are out of print, unavailable on Kindle, and their presence in the New York Public Library is hit or miss.īut in recent years, my bookshelves have swelled. I like murder mysteries, heist books and spy books, preferably from the 1950s through the 1980s. Ever since a university gave me a literature degree certifying that I have read Chaucer in the original Middle English, my taste in books has reverted to very specific, lowbrow stuff.
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