{"id":54504,"date":"2022-05-23T03:31:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T03:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=54504"},"modified":"2022-05-23T11:44:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T11:44:28","slug":"spanish-edition-of-i-am-providence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/05\/23\/spanish-edition-of-i-am-providence\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish edition of ‘I Am Providence’"},"content":{"rendered":"

S.T. Joshi’s blog<\/a> has updated. Of interest is that he has copies of both Lovecraftian People and Places<\/em> and Lovecraftian Proceedings #4<\/em>, so they are shipping in paper. He also notes that…<\/p>\n

the Spanish edition of I Am Providence is out<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It appears that this edition manages to pack the two volumes into a mammoth 830-page table-trembler. <\/p>\n

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And all for 32 euros, which equates to $33. <\/p>\n

The continent appear to do book pricing differently. For instance a few days ago I had a new Polish book arrive, Mitologia Polnocy a Chrzescijanstwo<\/a><\/em> which I had to have for my Tolkien book since it has a chapter on Earendel (not so hot as was touted in a review, as it happens). The book managed to reach the UK, new, for just over \u00a310 ($12.50), including shipping. The low cost was why it was my first new in-paper book for quite a while. It was found to be very handsomely designed and somewhat thick, obviously not print-on-demand. How publisher Avalon can make a zolty<\/em> of profit on such a price I can’t imagine. I surmised there was perhaps some state-subsidy for worthy books related to national heritage, but the book had no subsidy credits or state logos. Such a nicely-made and rarefied scholarly book in the UK would automatically be around \u00a326 ($33), and I know from my interest in open access that academic humanities publishers whine like hell about (apparently) barely scraping a profit even on \u00a360 monographs featuring unpaid authors. And yet now comes the whole of I Am Providence<\/em> in Spanish for just $33. <\/p>\n

What is the secret? Has some impoverished former Soviet nation in Whereizitagain decided to corner the market in offering cheap book design and printing? Have such presses just found a couple of generous Bitcoin billionaires? Or did the supposed ‘paper shortage’ perversely lead to such an over-supply that the book-paper and printing market is now flooded and thus dirt cheap? Answers written on a night-gaunt’s wing, please, addressed to ‘Tentaclii Towers’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

S.T. Joshi’s blog has updated. Of interest is that he has copies of both Lovecraftian People and Places and Lovecraftian …<\/p>\n

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