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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:58:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Linda Wright <lwright@cac.washington.edu>
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Subject: new price for book (fwd)
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:52:47 -0500 (EST)
From: John Younger <jyounger@duke.edu>
Subject: new price for book (fwd)

Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned, to whom responses and
inquiries should be directed.

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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:52:01 +0200
From: jordan@hol.gr (David Jordan)
Subject: Unreasonably high U.S. price of book

The World of Ancient Magic
edd. David R. Jordan, Hugo Montgomery, and Einar Thomassen
(Papers of the Norwegian Institute at Athens, 4)
Bergen 1999, 325 pp.

Because of a generous subsidy by the Eitrem Fund and the Faculty of Arts at
the University of Oslo, the principal distributor of the book, Paul Astrom
of Sweden, is able to offer it at the below-cost price of $US 24.80. We
have learned, from a review in the New Republic (Peter Green, "Now, now,
quickly, quickly," NR, Aug. 21, pp. 44-48), that the U.S. distributor,
Coronet Books, sells the volume for $US 52.50! We have learned that this is
the price also at "amazon.com".

We do not know what has caused the high U.S. price, but it is certainly
counter to the spirit of the subsidies. We would like to inform all our
colleagues and all other prospective buyers that the book can be had for
less than half that price from the web-page of its designated principal
distributor:
http://www.astromeditions.com/

David Jordan (jordan@hol.gr),
Einar Thomassen (Einar.Thomassen@krr.uib.no),
Hugo Montgomery (h.j.c.montgomery@kri.uio.no)


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