[KS] RASKB Books

[Brother Anthony]

I wonder if I could ask the members of the list for some advice? The Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch has been publishing its journal Transactions since 1900 and scholarly books about Korea since the 1960s. In our storeroom we currently have thousands of unsold books and several hundred copies of every issue of Transactions since 1960, as well as 60 reprints of the complete volumes 1-40 of Transactions. Our question is what we should do with them all? We would like to sell them, of course. But how? For example, Sam Hawley's "Imjin War" is currently priced on Amazon.com at  $450 new from individual sellers, whereas we (the publishers) have several hundred copies in stock available at about one tenth of that price. Yes, we are not good at marketing, obviously. And getting listed in Amazon.com from overseas is out of the question. The full list can be seen in our home page http://www.raskb.com/ and I would be very grateful for suggestions. The radical solution,  "pulp the lot," has something to be said for it but there are some very fine books there. Richard Rutt's edition of James Gale's "History of the Korean People" for example. Do we have any alternative?

Brother Anthony
President, RASKB