These Easton Press editions are going for multiple hundred dollars. Who the hell is able to pay that much for a book? The worst part is there's no middle ground. You either get the garbage wal mart version or you pay a fortune for the expensive version that actually looks nice. The entire market has gotten clownish with significantly unfair prices.
Don’t judge a book by its cover!!!
>Easton PressImagine wasting money on an overpriced edition of a 1950s fantasy novel.I can understand spending money on a nice illustrated Bible or one of those hardcover classics with illustrations by Gustave Doré (like that copy of The Divine Comedy I have), since it's something you can actually be proud of showing to your children, but old fantasy books are just stale genreslop for manchildren.
>>24817557Nigga, if you can buy exactly the same book with one of 20 different covers, but don't immediately either go for the cheapest one or the most representative one, then I AM gonna judge you because of the cover you picked.
it's either from everyman's library or kindle for me
>>24817549the print revolution has gone back full circle to the point where 99% of the population are illiterate peasants and books have once again become expensive artisanal commodities for the elite to demonstrate their status
>>24817549This is why I got into book binding. I can make my own hardcovers after investing just $100 in tools and glue.
>>24817558>I can understand spending money on a nice illustrated Bible>but old fantasy books are just stale genreslop for manchildrenAnon... the bible is an old fantasy book.
>>24817549Even new paperbacks are getting more and more expensive. Either that or Amazon is fucking with me specifically with their dynamic pricing bullshit.
>>24817549Book prices have never been lower. You can get wonderful hardcovers used for next to no money. Easton Press, Franklin Library leatherbound books are 15 bucks, less than a new hardcover, sometimes less than a new paperbound. Only a sliver of fine publishing exists and the prices are high because it’s a luxury item - but it’s still affordable. 185 usd for the lower rungs, ~500 usd for middle rungs. These are handcrafted, letterpressed editions with commissioned art. If you want to support modern publishing and bookmaking check out fine press.
>>24817705Amazon's (new) books are actually typically the exact same as retail price, except you get free delivery and all that shit.
>>24817549>>24817783abebooks>>24817705They are. I recall buying a older version of a technical book for my job, and the price went from $8 to almost $100, because the also saw a sale and detected the supply was low. Fuck amazon.
>>24817549>not just robbing book storesSometimes niggers are right
I wanted to finally buy the best italian editions of Shakespeare available on the market (that also have english text) and they're like 300 euris. I just can't bring myself to e-read, because staring at a screen and pc has fucked my actual reading in the first place.
A book becomes expensive. Its price becomes high.Get it straight
Just buy them used
People don't buy that many books anymore so they raise prices to compensate.
>>24817585do you get the pages to turn into signitures from a printer or do you do it "in house"
>>24817585How did you get into this? I'm interested.
I spend $150 a month collecting booksI know it's bad
>>24819717*$150 AUD
>>24819717About the same for me, I do wonder what proportion of purchased books are read.
>>24817558Kek this has to be bait
>>24817585Where do you buy your materials (i.e. board and paper)? I've been sticking to paperback binding with higher quality printer paper because everywhere I have looked online the prices for actual bookbinding materials cost as much or more than it would cost to just buy a book, especially once you factor in shipping which for some reason is always ridiculous.
>>24817558>The Divine ComedyThis is literally fantasy slopEven if you're a devout Christian
How do Easton Press compare to other mass produced companies like Folio Society?
I have an Easton Press copy of Moby Dick
>>24817585When did your love of binding books turn into love of binding human beings?
>>24817561NTA. Do whatever you want but you'll be rightly judged as a pseud.
>>24817549Learn bookbinding
>>24817549It's not that the expense as such went up, it's that demand fell to nothing. It makes a difference when you're expecting to sell 50k of a thing versus 2 million. Between audible and kindle and even iPads and cost of living which makes for smaller living spaces, there's no demand for books generally, let alone "nice" books. Means the price gets 10x what it "should be" for everyone else.
Stop buying glamed up genre slop.
>>24817549That's our economic system for you.
NTA but I'm also a bookbinder.>>24819690In house. There's a bunch of imposition tools online for arranging pages on an a4 page, but I just coded my own.>>24819716This exact thread on /lit/ is where it all began for me:>>18446506>>24819976I'm lucky to have a good domestic supplier for book cloth, but I just use regular 80gsm printer paper (or a3 paper cut in half to a4 so that the grain direction is correct). For board I just bulk buy 20 chipboard sheets for like $20 which usually lasts a while.As for actual bookbinding tools like presses and shit, they are retardedly expensive. Since I usually bind smaller books anyway, I just a use a flower press which I bought for $15 and I made my own piercing cradle out of cardboard.
