Just a question because I'm a curious soul.
How come you folks over in England can get most books in hardcover while over here we're stuck with paperback only for a lot of them? Searching to replace some of my beat up or just favorite pb books and looking for HC editions but it seems a lot of them just don't come in American hard cover editions though they seem to be available in hardcover on the other side of the Atlantic. Not that I have a problem with British editions but the shipping fees can get a bit heavy and was wondering if hardcovers just sell better over there or something to cause this phenomenon? Case in point, the Covert One series. Newest book is coming out in hc over here but previous ones have all been pb, either regular or trade issue yet when searching for hc editions I find that they were done in hc over in Britain. It's got me wondering and since we're all readers on this site and a great many of you on the opposite shore I figured I might get an answer here. Maybe even Mike, with his knowledge of the industry, might be able to assuage my curiousity.
herb
How come you folks over in England can get most books in hardcover while over here we're stuck with paperback only for a lot of them? Searching to replace some of my beat up or just favorite pb books and looking for HC editions but it seems a lot of them just don't come in American hard cover editions though they seem to be available in hardcover on the other side of the Atlantic. Not that I have a problem with British editions but the shipping fees can get a bit heavy and was wondering if hardcovers just sell better over there or something to cause this phenomenon? Case in point, the Covert One series. Newest book is coming out in hc over here but previous ones have all been pb, either regular or trade issue yet when searching for hc editions I find that they were done in hc over in Britain. It's got me wondering and since we're all readers on this site and a great many of you on the opposite shore I figured I might get an answer here. Maybe even Mike, with his knowledge of the industry, might be able to assuage my curiousity.
herb
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