OT: 100 Copy Limited Editions

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OT: 100 Copy Limited Editions

1Jobasha
Feb 15, 2021, 7:25 pm

Could someone explain what is going on with these books!

They look like they are terrible quality regular hardbacks with 100 limitation (Although seemingly unnumbered). I see them absolutely everywhere online! I've even seen one signed by various Apollo astronauts! I have no intention of buying them, I'm just perplexed that there is an extremely low limitation product with what seems to be terrible quality and design.

2terebinth
Modificato: Feb 15, 2021, 8:01 pm

I'd never noticed them, but the quoted publisher is "Royal Classics" of Vancouver, Canada, and at the top of every other page of the text in a file I just glanced at is "Engage Books" followed by the title. So I rather expect that Engage Books, also of Vancouver, offer standard editions of the books under their own name, and the higher price (£25 for Emma on Amazon UK) buys you a cheap trade paperback in a tackily ostentatious hard cover of sub-mediocre design whose main selling point is that only 99 other people in the whole wide world can own a copy just like it. Folk can be found to buy the strangest things.