really gutted they decided against Random Penguins
but yeah this isn't great
― Polly Toynbee OK (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 October 2012 11:16 (eleven years ago) link
I suspect the Murdoch leak and the rumour of a 75% stake going over to BMG (via the FT, which is owned by the same company as Penguin) was to make this look like a less awful option. In fairness, it could have been a lot worse. It's very difficult to say how much of an impact this'll have on the running of Penguin or the books that it carries. The deal still has to be ratified by the competition authorities and the integration isn't really expected until late 2013. No details have been released at this stage.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Monday, 29 October 2012 11:52 (eleven years ago) link
Does anybody know what the asking price was when this was initially posted. Looking at what it says now & its a couple of thousand nearly so I'm assuming that isn't the same figure.
― Stevolende, Monday, 29 October 2012 12:01 (eleven years ago) link
sorry, bit out there. actually $13,400.00 which makes it sound like even less of an offer. Surprised that a marketplace seller would do something like that, is it cheaper to buy the titles individually? Just seems a meaningless figure when it's that high, doubt if anybody would avail of the offer.
― Stevolende, Monday, 29 October 2012 12:04 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know. You often hear of rich people buying books by the yard to make their houses look better. I can see the appeal of having 1100 of the "greatest books in history" as a ready-made library. It's almost certainly a big saving on the individual RRPs but probably not a massive one on the Amazon prices.
I would be willing to listen to offers in the region of $10,000 for my collection of 800 or so, btw.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Monday, 29 October 2012 12:48 (eleven years ago) link
Okay, the conversation overlapped for a second there and I thought Stevolende was saying that Penguin was bought out for $13,000, and I was all, "B-b-but we could've bought them out!"
― Come Into My Layer (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 October 2012 13:01 (eleven years ago) link
it was like medium four digits i think.
― set the controls for the heart of the congos (thomp), Monday, 29 October 2012 13:19 (eleven years ago) link
xpost, me too. ILX Penguin!
― but the boo boyz are getting to (Z S), Monday, 29 October 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
Two of the largest book publishers -- Penguin, home to Patricia Cornwell and Nora Roberts, and Random House, which publishes E.L. James and George R.R. Martin --
― abanana, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
why pic.twitter.com/2Efw46T7Nc— Hannah Gais (@hannahgais) July 28, 2018
Horrible.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 28 July 2018 23:55 (five years ago) link
on several levels
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 29 July 2018 00:05 (five years ago) link
why
money of course. his only value is the human centipede of fanboys who follow him.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 29 July 2018 00:22 (five years ago) link