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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4017248, member: 19463"]In case anyone did not get the joke here: Aorta was a trimmed down ERIC for the market of people not ready for the unabridged ERIC II. Now I am to believe that there is a living to be made taking scissors to a $50 ERIC II and making it into a $1000 Aorta??? Carrying this one step farther: Ras gave ERIC I online free when ERIC II came out. </p><p><a href="http://www.dirtyoldbooks.com/eric.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.dirtyoldbooks.com/eric.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dirtyoldbooks.com/eric.html</a></p><p>I have a 'very rare' hardback copy of ERIC I (not available on Amazon?) inscribed to me by the author stating I was the first person to buy the book. I believe a fair Amazon price for my book would be one EID MAR denarius in mint state. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> This book business is not all that different from our coins. Each of us has coins we would have gladly paid twice what we did and others we could not sell for a fraction of what we paid if we could sell them at all. Marketing?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4017248, member: 19463"]In case anyone did not get the joke here: Aorta was a trimmed down ERIC for the market of people not ready for the unabridged ERIC II. Now I am to believe that there is a living to be made taking scissors to a $50 ERIC II and making it into a $1000 Aorta??? Carrying this one step farther: Ras gave ERIC I online free when ERIC II came out. [URL]http://www.dirtyoldbooks.com/eric.html[/URL] I have a 'very rare' hardback copy of ERIC I (not available on Amazon?) inscribed to me by the author stating I was the first person to buy the book. I believe a fair Amazon price for my book would be one EID MAR denarius in mint state. ;) This book business is not all that different from our coins. Each of us has coins we would have gladly paid twice what we did and others we could not sell for a fraction of what we paid if we could sell them at all. Marketing?[/QUOTE]
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