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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3182727, member: 66&quot;]The reason the print runs are relatively small is because the number that will be sold, at least initially, is also small.&nbsp; Most specialized numismatic reference books are lucky to have sales of more than a few hundred copies, most are less. Secondly the books are not inexpensive to produce and the author typically has to pay for the entire print run up front (in the era before Print On Demand).&nbsp; So if you wanted a thousand copies of your book you had to front $30 to $50K, and then have someplace to store them while they were sold.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know how many were printed, but John Wrights excellent book on the middle dates was printed in 1992 and the first printing still hasn&#039;t sold out. (and now may never sell out because it is available for free download on the NNP.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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