{"id":425,"date":"2006-05-05T14:54:59","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T19:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=425"},"modified":"2020-01-02T12:41:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T17:41:01","slug":"why-you-shouldnt-pay-500-for-a-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/why-you-shouldnt-pay-500-for-a-copy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you shouldn&#8217;t pay $500 for a copy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People are putting copies of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/37pcXdT\">Opal<\/a>&#8221; on ebay, hoping to cash in on the Kaavya Viswanathan plagiarism scandal. Today on Amazon, copies are still being offered for $80-120. But on ebay, bidding has cooled off. Prices were up in the $50 range yesterday. Not today.<\/p>\n<p>This may be why: according to The Book Standard, about 12,000 copies were sold before Little, Brown pulled the book.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot of copies. I&#8217;m no expert, but I can&#8217;t see the value going much higher than $50. Not for the foreseeable future. So if you own a copy and want to double your money, go for it. But if you&#8217;re thinking you&#8217;ll buy a copy at that price and flip it . . . maybe not such a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>(For background see posts I\u2019ve written <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/packager-up\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/look-what-i-found-down-the-rabbit-hole.htm\">here<\/a>. And <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/the-scandal-that-keeps-on-scandaling.htm\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/i-burst-into-tears\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/inside-alloy\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are putting copies of &#8220;Opal&#8221; on ebay, hoping to cash in on the Kaavya Viswanathan plagiarism scandal. Today on Amazon, copies are still being offered for $80-120. But on ebay, bidding has cooled off. Prices were up in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/why-you-shouldnt-pay-500-for-a-copy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1013,1012,1053,1010,1011,241],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book-packagers","tag-book-publishing","tag-book-speculation","tag-kaavya-viswanathan","tag-plagiarism-scandal","tag-writing-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5791,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/5791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}