[KS] RASKB Books

Robert Neff robertneff103 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 24 14:29:42 EDT 2011


Greetings all,

How about Abe Books - they have a huge base and they specialize in old books
and hard to find books.  They also appear on Amazon.com.  I would also
suggest ebay.

Robert Neff

2011/8/24 Brother Anthony <ansonjae at sogang.ac.kr>

> 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?
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> Brother Anthony
> President, RASKB
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