[KS] RASKB Books

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Dear Brother Anthony,

 

Have you contacted the Academy of Korean Studies which is building up the
library of Korean Studies. Some of the materials you are enlisting seem to
be of historical value.

Best,

Okpyo Moon 

 

From: koreanstudies-bounces at koreaweb.ws [mailto:koreanstudies-
bounces at koreaweb.ws] On Behalf Of don kirk
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 5:51 AM
To: Brother Anthony; Korean Studies Discussion List
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

--- On Wed, 8/24/11, Brother Anthony <ansonjae at sogang.ac.kr> wrote:


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

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






 

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