Four Books

[Mark D. Roberts]

On Jan 21, 2008, at 11:03 AM, noble 1362 wrote:

> Alastair Phillips and Julian Stringer's Japanese Cinema: Texts and  
> Contexts sounds great but at $125 much too rich for me!

Paperback copies are available from Amazon.com for under US$40.

List price is US$35.95, though some shops are charging up to US$87  
for "new" copies that "may have a small remainder mark". What's up  
with that?

Parenthetically, has anybody else noticed that the advent of online  
book selling has driven costs of these academic books *up* rather  
than down? I.e., Bordwell's book on Ozu is at least $150 for a used  
copy today, and there is a shop in Florida asking US$378 for it (I  
know there's an online PDF version of this book, but that is a recent  
development). The same pattern seems to apply in the case of other  
books.

Not that I believe in all the toss about the free market making  
commodities more affordable, etc., but I'm baffled by these  
exorbitant prices.

Is anybody on this list actually going to pay US$150 for a used  
paperback academic study, even the "definitive" one?


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