PMHart Posted 17 February , 2011 Share Posted 17 February , 2011 I am absolutely certain that anyone as academically renowned, winsomely charming and ebulliantly self-confident as Bill Phillpott will be able to look after himself! But on a more serious note everyone is suffering from reduced sales at the moment! Apparently the market for non-fiction military books has never been worse. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanCurragh Posted 17 February , 2011 Share Posted 17 February , 2011 There'll be lots sold in Birmingham on 2nd April! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staffsyeoman Posted 18 February , 2011 Share Posted 18 February , 2011 It must be quite galling for authors who have sweat blood to get their labours of love into print just to see them go for a fraction of the normal price. I suppose a sale is a sale, but depends on the deal, whether it was a flat fee or a percentage! I once bought a (very expensive) book written by a professional colleague via a friend who worked at his publishers at trade rate (this was way before t'internet and Amazon). Colleague very grumpy as he got proportionately fewer royalties. Yet this, a £30 book twenty years ago (when, me lad, a thirty po pound book were a thirty pound book, like, when thirty quid were thirty quid) was available for a fiver remaindered about a year later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PMHart Posted 18 February , 2011 Share Posted 18 February , 2011 Generally authors get next to nothing from remaindered books! So a sale isn't a sale as far as they're concerned! I suppose most of us who have had books remaindered are pleased that people get the chance of a cheap 'taster' of their work and are hopefully more liklely to buy the next book! But if you have a real crash with lots remaindered then there won't be a next book! Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hartley Posted 22 February , 2011 Share Posted 22 February , 2011 But if you have a real crash with lots remaindered then there won't be a next book! So get buying your copy of the "6th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, in the Great War". The perfect accompaniment to Pete's "Gallipoli" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlang Posted 3 March , 2011 Share Posted 3 March , 2011 Hi Got a paperback copy of Band of Brigands by Christy Campbell in the Works at Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, yesterday for £2.99, reduced from £8.99. There was only one other copy which was damaged. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PMHart Posted 3 March , 2011 Share Posted 3 March , 2011 So get buying your copy of the "6th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, in the Great War". The perfect accompaniment to Pete's "Gallipoli" All right, all right, John, I get the hint - just ordered your book and much looking forward to it!!!! By the way saw stacks of poor old Philpotts Bloody Somme in the Works in Liverpool at about £1.99 or £2.99. I can unreservedly recommend this truly great author's works at that price! Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan_NW Posted 5 March , 2011 Share Posted 5 March , 2011 Boy Soldiers of the Great War by Richard van Emden is £2.99 in the Wigan branch. Only a few copies left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan_NW Posted 13 March , 2011 Share Posted 13 March , 2011 There is a pile of Martin Gilbert's Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War In the Bolton branch for £2.99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 13 March , 2011 Share Posted 13 March , 2011 Made one of my pilgrimages to Hay on Wye yesterday. Usually when I go round the many 2nd hand bookshops I'm having to weigh up how much of my budget I'm willing to spend on what. This time the problem was finding books that I'd want to buy and I came home under spent. The shelves devoted to WW1 seem to have shrunk and some were part empty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geraint Posted 13 March , 2011 Share Posted 13 March , 2011 There is a pile of Martin Gilbert's Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War In the Bolton branch for £2.99 Got mine at Wrexham branch. There were two left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmackie Posted 1 April , 2011 Share Posted 1 April , 2011 Picked up Martin Gilberts Somme yesterday for £2.99 from the Wolverhampton branch they had about 10 left. Dental Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daggers Posted 8 April , 2011 Share Posted 8 April , 2011 Martin Gilbert's Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War at £2.99 in Shrewsbury, Wednesday 6 April. D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkTurner Posted 8 April , 2011 Share Posted 8 April , 2011 For those interested in fiction I picked up a paperback copy of Robert Radcliffes' Across the Blood-red Skies for £1.99 (previously £7.99) in the Norwich branch a couple of weeks ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auchonvillerssomme Posted 9 April , 2011 Share Posted 9 April , 2011 Very few military books in the branch in Pontefract and I think even those are of the colouring in or join the dots variety. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geraint Posted 11 April , 2011 Share Posted 11 April , 2011 Peter Parker's The Last Veteran going 3 for a £5 or £1.99 at Wrexham. damned good read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchtrotter Posted 15 April , 2011 Share Posted 15 April , 2011 Not the Works, but Lovejoys in Soho, London has some fine reductions at the moment...picked up "Massacre On The Marne, history 2/5 West Yorks" and "The Road To St Julien" Letters of a stretcher bearer. Both £7.99 reduced from £20.00. Some Battleground Europe titles at £.99 plus other books ie RaY Westlakes book on Battalion in France between Aug 1914 and Jan 1915. If in London worth a visit. Its at Cambridge Circus. TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Baker Posted 15 April , 2011 Share Posted 15 April , 2011 Made one of my pilgrimages to Hay on Wye yesterday. I echo that. I was there in Tuesday and did not spend a single penny on Great War stuff. Very poor fare. I blame websites like the GWF for whipping up a WW1 frenzy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J T Gray Posted 15 April , 2011 Share Posted 15 April , 2011 I echo that. I was there in Tuesday and did not spend a single penny on Great War stuff. Very poor fare. I blame websites like the GWF for whipping up a WW1 frenzy. And whose fault might that be? Adrian (who, funnily enough, has seen an author doing a signing at The Works - it was Bill Pertwee (Warden Hodges)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staffsyeoman Posted 15 April , 2011 Share Posted 15 April , 2011 Not the Works, but Lovejoys in Soho, London has some fine reductions at the moment...picked up "Massacre On The Marne, history 2/5 West Yorks" and "The Road To St Julien" Letters of a stretcher bearer. Both £7.99 reduced from £20.00. Some Battleground Europe titles at £.99 plus other books ie RaY Westlakes book on Battalion in France between Aug 1914 and Jan 1915. If in London worth a visit. Its at Cambridge Circus. TT Just don't go downstairs if you are of a moral or nervous disposition; a vicar, a maiden aunt or in posession of a soiled coat intended to keep off the rain. The ground floor back room of Henry Pordes - further down the Charing Cross Road towards Trafalgar Square - has fewere titles but comparable stock to Lovejoys. Yeah, OK, I get stuff from Lovejoys too. Upstairs. Oops should have said 'unless you are in possession...' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulgranger Posted 15 April , 2011 Share Posted 15 April , 2011 My local 'Works' is closing down, second time it's opened and shut in the past couple of years. That'll leave W H Smiths as the only 'bookshop' in Grantham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auchonvillerssomme Posted 15 April , 2011 Share Posted 15 April , 2011 Visited the Works in Lincoln, pretty much the same as my post 40, but they had a lovely selection of classy union jack paper plates and bowler hats for those royal wedding street parties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pighills Posted 15 April , 2011 Share Posted 15 April , 2011 We picked up a cracking book yesterday, 'On a Wing and a Prayer' by Joshua Levine - "A vivid, moving story of the men who fought the great War in the Air. Quite Superb." Max Arthur We picked it up in York, down from £12.99 (paperback edition) to £2.99. I started to read it on the train home, seems good so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H Posted 15 April , 2011 Share Posted 15 April , 2011 Blimey, Kim! You bought that many books at the conference, I'm surprised you have room left on your shelves Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pighills Posted 15 April , 2011 Share Posted 15 April , 2011 Plenty of room on the floors Roger, plenty of room on the floors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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