03.06.08
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.
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03.27.07
Posted in Books & Publishing, Virgin book, good things, public speaking at 7:03 am by Hanne Blank
In case you’ve been wondering where I’ve been (and let’s face it, you probably haven’t been), I’ve been listening to Tuvan throat-singing virtuoso Kongar-Ol Ondar [Link] and dealing with book release stuff, including a mess o’ reviews and interviews and whatnot. For links to the reviews that have appeared online, you can check out Virginbook.org — this past Sunday saw reviews in the New York Times and the Chicago Sun-Times both, plus a review in the New York Observer that ran on the 26th, all of which was pretty darned exciting. I hear tell that it’s reviewed in Ms. magazine’s spring issue, too, and on Thursday, it should be featured in Josey Vogels’ “My Messy Bedroom” column, which runs in a buncha different papers across Canada.
This weekend I’ll be teaching and speaking at the FORGE Forward conference in Milwaukee, WI — I’m the Friday night dinner keynote speaker. Then, on April 5, I’m reading from and signing copies of Virgin right here in Baltimore, at Atomic Pop [Info at the link]. If you’re at either event, don’t be shy! Especially because there may well be an outing to the Golden West’s Long Bar after the Atomic Pop event… signin’ books is thirsty work, pardners.
And now, because the life of a writer is one of unparalleled glamour, I must go move books around in advance of having a nice young man come to rip out a chunk of the ceiling in the stairwell.
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03.09.07
Posted in Books & Publishing, Virgin book, good things at 12:57 pm by Hanne Blank
Those of you in New York and San Francisco (well, and everywhere else, too) might want to keep a look out for forthcoming reviews and mentions of Virgin…
Sunday, March 11 — San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, and also New York Daily News
Friday, March 16 — Entertainment Weekly
Sunday, March 25 — New York Times Book Review
I’ve had a chance to see a preview of the Chronicle piece and am very happy with it indeed. It’s awfully nice to read that I seem to have managed to do some of the trickier things I set out to do! (At least as far as that reviewer is concerned. But I’ll take what I can get, ya know.)
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