[KS] RASKB Books

[Su-kyoung Hwang]

If not Ebay (which is time consuming), donating them to university libraries
in Korea is a great idea. I would suggest non-Seoul libraries, so
provincial institutions can get some materials in English. The sad thing
about libraries outside Seoul is that most of them have poor collection of
English language books on Korean Studies. A book worth $450 would be a nice
gift.

Best,
Su-kyoung

2011/8/26 koreanstudies-request at koreaweb.ws

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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: don kirk <kirkdon at yahoo.com>
> To: Brother Anthony <ansonjae at sogang.ac.kr>, Korean Studies Discussion
> List <koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:50:48 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Re: [KS] RASKB Books
>   Pulping would indeed be terrible. Can't you donate a lot of them to
> libraries in Korea, U.S., UK, elsewhere? You might consider putting out a
> catalogue of all you've got -- don't think I've ever seen a RASK catalogue.
> Best,
> Don Kirk
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> --- On *Wed, 8/24/11, Brother Anthony <ansonjae at sogang.ac.kr>* wrote:
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> From: Brother Anthony <ansonjae at sogang.ac.kr>
> Subject: [KS] RASKB Books
> To: "Korean Studies Discussion List" <koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
> Date: Wednesday, August 24, 2011, 12:49 AM
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> 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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