03.06.08

Note about Big Big Love and Best Transgender Erotica

Posted in Books & Publishing, publishing at 9:09 pm by Hanne Blank

In the past few days I have had several e-mail requests from people looking for copies of my first book, Big Big Love: A Sourcebook on Sex for People of Size and Those Who Love Them.

Big Big Love is currently out of print. It has been out of print for a year or so. There are no current plans to bring it back into print.

Best Transgender Erotica, which I coedited with Raven Kaldera, is likewise out of print.

What this means:

  • The only copies of Big Big Love or Best Transgender Erotica currently available for sale are copies which were either a) purchased by booksellers prior to the time that the book went out of print, or else they are b) used copies.
  • This means that they are being sold outside the publishing-industry loop of in-print books that involves the author, the publisher, and the distributor. They are being sold in the out-of-print sector of the book business, to which neither I nor the publishers or distributors have any connection.
  • Neither I nor the publisher have anything to do with the prices being asked for remaining copies. When it comes to sales of out of print books, booksellers are free to ask for whatever they think the market will bear.
  • Neither the publisher or I are receiving any profits from sales of the remaindered or used copies, regardless of how much you may pay for one, so please do not assume that it is my greediness, or that of the book’s publishers, that is to blame for the rather elevated prices that are apparently being asked for copies of the book. I repeat: I do not see any income from sales of the book at this point. The high prices being asked are not connected to me.
  • I am sorry, but I cannot help you find a cheap copy of any of my out-of-print books. I don’t know any more than you do about where such a thing might lurk.

Thank you for your interest in my work. I hope that you will be sufficiently intrigued to purchase copies of my other books that are still in print.  On that note, I point out that my most recent book, Virgin: The Untouched History, has just come out in paperback.