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<br><div><div>On Jan 21, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Alexander Jacoby wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>I'm still surprised that the copies available on American Amazon at under $40 are all from other sellers - ie, it seems you can't yet buy the paperback directly through Amazon. This is perplexing.</div></span></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>Since I've had this book on order from Amazon since last May, I just called to get the scoop. They don't have it in stock, though some of their affiliates do (ah, the benefits of pre-ordering).</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>For those of you who want the book sooner, you might try one of those other shops, via Amazon.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); -webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">In the past, bookshops just had to stick Bordwell's Ozu in the window or on the shelf in the hope that a passing Japanese movie buff would happen along, and demand for that particular copy in that particular place was inherently limited. But now every Ozu fan in the world can be competing online for the few available second-hand copies, the laws of supply and demand are causing the effects we see.</span></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Again, how many Ozu fans are going to pay US$150, let alone, US$378 for a used copy of Bordwell's book? You know, a year or two back there were places selling it used for over US$600. Absurd. I wonder if there are book collectors who are speculating on "rare" books and driving the prices up.</div><br></body></html>