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Posted by NYC XYZ on 01/18/06 19:10
Invid Fan wrote:
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> This goes on all the time with books. Not every title is in print all
> the time. They print up a bunch, and if sales drop below a certain
> point they don't reprint more and just sell out the current stock.
Yeah, but my God, these are prestige titles. In an odd way, the very
fact that they're not available shows that there is some demand for
them -- otherwise, there would be stacks sitting around! So just how
many orders has to come in each month for them to determine a title
worthy of continued availability?
> After a couple years demand has built up enough to make another
> printing worth while. Why should movies be any different?
It doesn't cost them a lot of money to print these up, from what I
know. F. Scott Fitzgerald's publisher, Scribner & Sons, routinely kept
fifty copies a year for the odd request when he'd been mostly forgotten
after the '30s for over a decade.
> There's lots
> of used copies floating around if you have to have it now.
No there isn't, which is why it's at ~$100 for used copies.
If still too lazy for it, but sooner or later I think I'll research
DVD-ripping. This is the 21st Century, and with broadband, there's no
reason why anything film should be unavailable, much less those both
critically and popularly acclaimed!
> --
> Chris Mack "Refugee, total shit. That's how I've always seen us.
> 'Invid Fan' Not a help, you'll admit, to agreement between us."
> -'Deal/No Deal', CHESS
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